Like Comb and Razor , I seem to be experiencing some difficulty managing to get a post up, not, as in Uchenna's case, because I'm te...

I linked to a video by Senegalese musician Abou Diouba Deh in my last post about Fatou Laobé without realizing that I've had one of his...

Barely known to me until I picked up a few of her CDs in NYC's Little Senegal a few weeks ago, Fatou Laobé is a huge star in Senegal, a...

Since achieving independence from Portugal in 1974, the small west African nation of Guinea-Bissau hasn't been much in the news until re...

I was saddened to hear of the death Sunday of a true master of Ethiopian music, Tilahun Gessesse, who has been the subject of several posts ...

Aku and I recently returned from a trip out East for Installment Two of the Spring Break College Tour . I'm happy to report that she...

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...

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

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

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...