Courtesy of Lucas Silva:

I've been feeling bad about not being able to blog recently, but I see some of my fellow African music blogmeisters have also been slack...

One of the fringe benefits of doing this blog is that I occasionally hear from the musicians I write about, and their relatives. Thursda...

Once again our friend Rainer has come through with an exceedingly rare artifact from the golden age of Nigerian highlife music, in this ca...

Ugandan singer/guitarist Sammy Kasule is present on many Kenyan recordings made during the 1980s. He was a member of Frantal Tabu's Orch...

Have you seen Alastair Johnston's website Muzikifan ? It's a must-go-to destination for anyone who's interested in African m...

Note: This post was updated on October 4, 2009. My post "Divided Loyalties" inspired an anonymous reader to make available an in...

I've written here before that twenty years ago I accumulated an archive of about 24 hours worth of East African music on 10" tape r...

The recent dénouement of the 25-year Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka was reminiscent in many ways of the end of the Biafran war in Nigeria in...

If you're a fan of Aster Aweke or Kuku Sebsebe , you'll no doubt enjoy this cassette by Ethiopian vocalist Martha Ashagari. Ärä Bak...