I've been unable to find out much about Asare Bediako, who is responsible for today's offering, the very enjoyable Lovers Hi Li...

Congolese musician Pablo Lubadika Porthos began his career with several local assemblages in the 1970s, including Kin-Bantou, Lovy du Z...

As readers may be aware, I've had a long-time interest in Nigerian music and feature it often here at Likembe . However, all of th...

Here's another in Likembe' s continuing series of releases by Tanzania's legendary DDC Mlimani Park Orchestra, this one a ...

Ghana's highlife great Pat Thomas has been experiencing something of a career renaissance lately. 2015 saw the release of   Pat Tho...

Jùjú music, so popular in the 1970s and '80s, seems to have gone into eclipse in southwestern Nigeria, the land of its birth. Even ...

Now, this is an album I've been wanting to post for a long time! Orchestra Simba Wanyika (Swahili for "Lion of the Jungle...

Two cassettes from Ivory Coast, both by the outstanding ensemble Système Gazeur, one of the many zouglou groups that emerged in th...

Popoko (EMI EO173292-4, 1992) is a lively cassette from Ivory Coast by the group Les Woanthios. All I know about them, and the cassett...

A few days ago I posted an album by King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal 1, one of the reigning triumvirate of fújì  music in the 1980s. The other...