Here is the second of three "unorthodox" Congolese albums released by the Swiss label Plainisphare in the mid-'80s. Nsimba...

Kinshasa! , by Kawende et ses Copains (Plainisphare ZONE Z1, 1984), was the first of three LPs released in the mid-'80s by the Swis...

Barry Allama Boy is a musician about whom I've been able to find nothing, and I mean NOTHING, on the internet or anywhere else. T...

I just realized that Ramadan this year begins the evening of May 5 and ends the evening of June 4. It's a little early, but I thoug...

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...