I've been on a Ghana kick lately, digging out a lot of semi-forgotten vinyl in my collection that I haven't listened to in years. I ...

I often tell Priscilla that if I leave this mortal coil before her and she's hard up for cash, she can raffle off my record collection o...

Remember back in the early '80s when King Sunny Adé hit the scene in America? Not only was he said to be the next Bob Marley, the record...

Reader/listener Malam Bala, in a recent comment, reminded me that this blog is long overdue for a posting of good old Ghana highlife music. ...

As I wrote in "The Anioma Sound Pt. 1," the Anioma region comprises the Igbo-speaking areas of Delta State in Nigeria. The name...

The Igbo people live in all parts of Nigeria, but are the big majority of the population (over 90%) in five states: Imo, Anambra, Abia, Enu...

What a shame that South African saxophonist Dudu Pukwana died in exile on June 30, 1990, four years before the coming of democracy to his ho...

As you may have noticed, I've been writing quite a bit lately about the music of Nigeria's "Eastern Minorities." By this I...

Note: This post was updated on December 30, 2008 and January 19, 2009. Get ready for another blast of raw, uncompromising Ethiopian funk, ...

The Ijaw people , who number close to ten million people, are the fourth largest nationality in Nigeria. They are a majority in Bayelsa Stat...