I posted four tracks from Pat Thomas's 1974 album False Lover (Gapophone GAPO 02) almost ten years ago . Recently a reader asked th...

I've been posting some of the many Hausa cassettes from northern Nigeria in my collection with a bit of anxiety. It's not a gen...

Olubi Taiwo, under his stage name "Expensive Olubi," was a midlevel jùjú star in '70s Nigeria. Other than that, I can...

At first I thought the title of today's featured recording, L'Oiseau de Sankara (BGDA 91007, 1992), was a tribute to the late ...

In Ethiopia, Ambassel Music and Video Shop perservered throughout the bitter '70s and '80s - through political repression, cu...

Over the last few months I've been posting a disproportionate amount of sweet Ghana highlife from the '80s. I just happened t...

Together with Barmani Mai Coge and Alhaji Maman Shata , Dan Maraya Jos was a leading exemplar of the traditional music of the Hausa p...

The genre known as "Burger Highlife" originated among Ghanaian musicians living in Germany in the early '80s. Lauded and...

From the little I've been able to find out about him, Abel Yéplé of Ivory Coast has had a long career. I suspect he may have pass...

The two stalwarts of Ghana highlife, Pat Thomas and Ebo Taylor, have both been experiencing career revivals lately, thanks to new re...