King Sunny Adé's 1981 LP Juju Music (Island ILPS 9712) was a revelation for many outside of Nigeria, making him a global supersta...

Kudos to the blog Music Republic for posting the great 1981 King Sunny Adé LP Check "E" (Sunny Alade Records SALPS 26). I...

The "Patriarch of Bikutsi," Etoundi Aloa Javis, joined his ancestors  on November 6, 2017. Shortly before his death he was hon...

Before last week I'd heard of Camerounian chanteuse Catherine Edoa Ngoa, aka Kotino Ateba, aka "K-Tino," and her notoriou...

Making their first appearance here at Likembe are Les Veterans out of Cameroun, leading practitioners in the '80s of the rootsy, ...

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 ...