Sad as it is for me to report, I think the Igbo highlife sound, at least as we have known it, is dead and buried, the great stylists - Osade...

As you may know, I've periodically been posting classic and hard-to-find music from Ethiopia here. For some time, I've wanted to m...

As a follow-up to my earlier post From Congo to Kenya Pt. 1 , here are some melodies courtesy of the Congolese diaspora in East Africa. ...

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...