Just about everyone in the United States who started collecting African music in the 1970s and '80s is familiar with the producti...

Here's an LP that my old friend Steve Kamuiru brought me from Kenya back in the early '90s. I have been unable to find out any...

About ten years ago I devoted a post to the Senegalese jazz/funk group Xalam, then celebrating their fortieth anniversary. It seems th...

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...