For all I know, recordings like Simon Sene's Magal (Afrique Dioundioung/KSF) could be as common as dirt in Senegal, so the title of this...

How to explain the dire state of the Nigerian music scene? Judging by what's being spun at parties in Milwaukee these days, it's be...

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...