I love this album cover! I love the music on the album! The group "Le Peuple" had its origins in a split from the legen...

Elizabeth Finant, better known as Abeti Masikini, or just "Abeti," was a pioneer of the Congolese music scene - one of the fi...

As promised in an earlier post , here are Volumes 5 and 6 of the series Rochereau Vols. 1-8 , released by Disco Stock in Abidjan in 1982...

Happy New Year! Bonne Année ! And here with us to celebrate the new year are Lokassa Ya M'Bongo, Sam Mangwana and the African All...

This is a quick and brief post, in response to a request. A while back I put up a post devoted to traditional Igbo village music ...

About 20 years ago my wife Priscilla brought back from Nigeria about 40 albums of Ijaw (Izon)-language highlife music, or  Awigiri , ...

Some time ago I devoted a post to music from the Efik and Ibibio peoples of southeastern Nigeria. For some reasoin I overlooked today...

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...