Note: This post was updated on September 20, 2008 to incorporate a translation of the song "Marashi ya Pemba" by reader/listener...

Most people who have a passing acquaintance with African music are familiar with juju music from Nigeria, and its most famous practitioner,...

I just came across this - real Ethiopian music the way it was meant to be heard, played on real musical instruments and not cheap synthesize...

A reader/listener requested some music by Mbaraka Mwinshehe, and I'm more than happy to oblige! Mwinshehe was the great Tanzanian guit...

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