One thing that's always irritated me about the whole "World Music™" thing is the tendency to reduce whole genres of music to o...

Researching that last post has got me worked up, and I've been listening to Angolan music pretty much non-stop for the last few days. S...

Buda Musique is justly famed for its amazing Ethiopiques series of music, and it has recently launched Zanzibara , a new collection devoted...

Swahili music was terra incognita to me until one day in the summer of 1984. I was visiting Edmund Ogutu, a Kenyan friend of mine. He...

Once upon a time many thought that Ali Baba would be the next big thing in African music. With his flashy stage show and eclectic, cosmopoli...

If you've been around the African music blogosphere for a while you've probably chanced across an incredible site entitled Voodoo F...

First of all, let me introduce myself: My name is John Beadle, and I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. From January 1985 to June 2001 I pr...