I posted the album Nzara by Zimbabwe's Oliver Mutukudzi a while back, and as promised here is another one by the great master, 1988...

A while back I did a post devoted to awigiri , the highlife music of the Ijaw (Izon) people of the Niger Delta. I have quite a few LPs ...

Wow, check out the tribal marks on these guys! The cover of Iya Alakara (Awurebe Records DELP 8303, 1983) is arresting, the music on the...

Liberia has never played a big role in the African music scene. In a fascinating pos t on his old Voice of America blog, Matt Lavoie ...

Some years ago I posted the LP Pre-Festival Lagos 77 , featuring tracks from a number of Guinean orchestras who were in competition to ...

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 ...