I think the Pressmen Band, described as "teen sensations" in their heyday, are still extant and catering to the tourist tra...

There was growing interest in South African music during the 1980s. The initial impetus came from the Soweto uprising of 1976 and the s...

It's about time we returned to Ihiagwa, just outside of Owerri, capital of Imo State, Nigeria and home of the Obi Wuru Otu Dance Gro...

I've been collecting Nigerian music since the 1970s, but never actually made it to the country until 1994 and 1995. By then it was...

The cassette Wika Ô Ma (ALPHA 003, 1992), by N'Gosséré Ballo, is the kind of down-home traditional music that is found througho...

Nwamara (Tradition TRAD 001, 1984), by the Nkelebe Brothers, is like no other recording of Igbo music I have ever heard. I don't k...

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...