I've been on a tear lately digitizing Ivorian cassettes from the early '90s. A few days ago we heard Ze by Gueatan System , a...

A track from Ivory Coast's Gueatan System was featured on the 1993 release Super Guitar Soukous (Hemisphere 7243 8 28188), a compi...

Here's an appropriate followup to our last post of Ethiopian "ethnic" music:  3tä Weräyat Naye Tegriña Däräfeti Behe...

Ethiopia in the popular mind is associated with the Amhara people, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the distinctive Ge'ez, or E...

I've written in this space several times of my admiration for Souzy Kasseya , the brilliant Congolese session guitarist who score...

Here's a quick post to celebrate the New Year and fulfill a promise. A while back I posted La Tradition en Mouvement by the Ivoria...

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...