It's time for another deep dive into the world of "Igbo Blues"- real village music from southeastern Nigeria! I know no...

Back in the early days of online file-sharing, the 1973 album Destruction (Orbitone OT 005) by the Nigerian group the Nkengas achieve...

Singing For The People (Obey WAPS 578, 1980) continues the explorations in jùjú -funk that Ebenezer Obey started with Eyi Yato (Decc...

I was under the impression that Nigeria's jùjú legend Ebenezer Obey had retired from the music scene some years ago, but it turns...

The two major musical styles of Cameroun are bikutsi , centered around the capital city Yaoundé, and makossa , from the coastal metropol...

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, ...