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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Carrying on the Family Business

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Eugene de Coque, brother of the late Nigerian highlife master Oliver de Coque , has been based in Los Angeles since the early '90s, and ...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Ladies of Ihiagwa-Owerri

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I've been meaning to post this recording for a while. Nwanyi Ma Obi Diya (Onyeoma C.Y. Records CYLP 016, 1984) by the Obi Wuru Otu Danc...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Yoruba Muslim Women's Music

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We were shopping on Nnamdi Azikiwe St. in central Lagos when we came across a fascinating sight: hundreds of men were prostrate and barefoo...
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Black Warriors

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Ronnie Graham's The World of African Music (Pluto Press/Research Associates, 1992) states that Tanzania's DDC Mlimani Park Orchestr...
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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Jaliba Sounds

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Another musician from the Gambia winds up our look at "updated" kora music . Unlike the two previous artists featured here, I was...
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Friday, January 1, 2010

A Malian Arrow

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I'm not sure Ama Maïga's Une Fleche Malienne (Disques Sonics SONICS 79426, ca. 1984) succeeds completely as a fusion between traditi...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

F.Y.I.

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Hi John, I have been a fan of your website Likembe for a couple years since I came across some thing you posted about Kuku Sebsebe. I also w...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Salam Sounds

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Researching that last post has got me to pondering the ways in which the kora , the traditional 21-string harp-lute of West Africa, has bee...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

House of Kings

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The Casamance region of southern Senegal has been the scene of sporadic fighting over the years between the central government and the separ...
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Sunday, December 6, 2009

The Roots of "Art Music"

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I didn't know what to expect when I posted a recording of Fela Sowande's African Suite a couple of weeks ago, but the reaction has ...
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