Likembe
Friday, August 24, 2018

Pat Thomas's False Lover

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I posted four tracks from Pat Thomas's 1974 album False Lover (Gapophone GAPO 02) almost ten years ago . Recently a reader asked th...
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Sunday, August 19, 2018

Between Man and Money

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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...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

"Expensive" Jùjú

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Olubi Taiwo, under his stage name "Expensive Olubi," was a midlevel jùjú star in '70s Nigeria. Other than that, I can...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Bird of Sankaran

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At first I thought the title of today's featured recording, L'Oiseau de Sankara (BGDA 91007, 1992), was a tribute to the late ...
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Thursday, August 2, 2018

Four "Cultural" Stars From Ethiopia

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In Ethiopia, Ambassel Music and Video Shop perservered throughout the bitter '70s and '80s - through political repression, cu...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Ghana Highlife - The London Connection

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Over the last few months I've been posting a disproportionate amount of sweet Ghana highlife from the '80s. I just happened t...
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Sunday, July 22, 2018

The Little Orphan of Jos

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Together with Barmani Mai Coge and Alhaji Maman Shata , Dan Maraya Jos was a leading exemplar of the traditional music of the Hausa p...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The Controversial Sounds of "Burger Highlife"

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The genre known as "Burger Highlife" originated among Ghanaian musicians living in Germany in the early '80s. Lauded and...
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Monday, July 9, 2018

Yéplé Jazz!

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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...
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Sunday, July 1, 2018

The Dynamic Duo of Ghana Highlife

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