The Good Women Choir was founded in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria in 1975 as the musical expression of the Christ Apostolic Church, ...

Some years ago I discussed the former Benin Empire (not to be confused with the present-day "Republic of Benin"), its prem...

Here's another recording that was featured not too long ago on another site - in this case Mangue Music , which posted it on Janua...

From Independence in 1958 until the death of dictator Sekou Touré in 1984, there was only one record company in Guinea, the legendary S...

The azmari is the Ethiopian equivalent of the West African griot - a troubadour, a truth-teller and "court jester" all in o...

Les Officiers of African Music were a "super-group" formed in the 1980s by Congolese musicians (mainly from the Brazzaville...

A while back I posted about northern Nigeria's greatest female singer, Barmani Mai Choge . I devote today's post to Alhaji Ma...

In 1987 French producer Jean Philippe Rykiel produced Soro , an album by the legendary Malian vocalist Salif Keita that was acclaimed...

I was all ready to post today's selection - Baba Gaston's wonderful 1983 release  Condition Bi-Msum (ASL ASLP 971) - when I re...

Les Côcôs were one of the innumerable groups that popped up during the first wave of Zouglou   in the Ivory Coast during the economic c...