What is the deal with Moos, over at Global Groove ? Can he read my mind? As I noted here , I had wanted to post the LP Somo Somo , but Moos ...

This has been out a few days, so you may have seen it, but the latest Village Voice takes note of Likembe and several other African music ...

Guitarist Mose Se Sengo "Fan Fan" was a crucial member of Franco's Orchestre TPOK Jazz from 1967 to 1972. In that year he lef...

Note: This post was updated on September 20, 2008, to incorporate comments by reader/listener Iman . In response a to a request from reader/...

Today marks one year since Likembe first went online on August 9, 2007. One thing I've discovered in a year of blogging is that it'...

Our friend Aduna is back from Madagascar with un petit cadeau , "Tulear Market Mix," eleven nuggets of wailing vocals and fren...

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 ...