Théo Blaise Kounkou is one of those African musicians who, while building substantial careers and achieving popularity throughout Afr...

As more evidence that the collectors' market for used African recordings has entered Dutch Tulip Mania territory, I present the f...

Oliver "Tuku" Mutukudzi has been called "The Otis Redding of Zimbbawe," a comparison that has always irritated me....

The Okukuseku International Band, led by Sammy Koffi, was a Ghanaian group that made its way to Nigeria in the '70s and built an ...

No sooner had I posted Likembe 's last offering then I realized that I had another, similar pressing. Orchestres Kamale et Kiam ...

Today's post covers some old ground - classic orchestras from the stable of wunderkind Kiamwuangana Mateta, aka "Verckys,...

Cape Verdean musician Abel Lima (above) graces two recent excellent collections of music from that island nation - Space Echo: The My...

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...