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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Africa Roots Vol. 4

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I'll be out of town for a week and don't expect to be able to blog, but I wanted to get something in, so this one's a quickie. I...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Racines Africaines et Feeling Jazzy

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Idrissa Diop's LP Femme Noire (Volume LK 0188, 1987) is complimentary, and a companion of sorts, to Seydina Insa Wade's Yoff (Disq...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009

A Senegalese Auteur

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I ordered Seydina Insa Wade's LP Yoff (Disques Esperance ESP 8415, 1985) from Sterns many years ago not knowing anything about the alb...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Navigating the Boundary Between Highlife and Jùjú

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There's been a lot of good jùjú on the Internets lately - from Comb & Razor here and here , Worldservice here and here , and at S...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

It's Highlife Time

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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 ...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Exploring Ga Cultural Highlife

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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...
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Friday, February 6, 2009

Forty Years of Xalam

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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...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Red Spots, Black Beats and Stargazers

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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. ...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Anioma Sound Pt. 2

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As I wrote in "The Anioma Sound Pt. 1," the Anioma region comprises the Igbo-speaking areas of Delta State in Nigeria. The name...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Anioma Sound Pt. 1

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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...
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