I mentioned to someone recently that with two teenagers headed off to college soon I just can't afford to plop down $17-20 for a CD anym...

Listening to Oliver de Coque for the first time in 1984, I was made aware that there was a whole lot more to Nigerian music than King Sun...

As I promised , here is the second installment of ground-breaking classic jùjú by the great Ebenezer Obey, his LP On The Town (Decca WA...

From The Sunday Tribune (Lagos): Highlife musician, Oliver De Coque is dead. Sunday Oliver Akanite, who hailed from Anambra State, died on ...

Those of a certain age, like me, will remember when the Beatles first hit the international scene in late 1963. Within a few months Beatlema...

My ol' buddy Ken Chitika loaned me this 45 many years ago. The Katenga Humming Bees, led by guitarist T.C. Katenga, were a popular band...

A couple of years back people were raving about "Les Jaloux Saboteurs," the tune that opened the compilation Golden Afrique Vol. 1...

It's hard to believe that the great Franco, l'Okanga la Ndju Pene Luambo Makiadi, has been gone almost 20 years now (he passed on O...

Note: This post was updated and revised on July 29, 2008 and on September 19, 2009. I wrote this on June 15, 2008: Here's another ...

Back in the mid-1980s if there was one musical style that rivaled Congo music in the hearts of Africans, it was makossa out of Cameroun. Giv...