Daniel Kamau's Kikuyu-language benga  sounds a little different from the Luo, Kamba and Swahili versions of the music this blog h...

As the title would have it, Turbo-Hits '89 (Editions Haïssam-Records MH 112, 1989) is a collection of remixed makossa (and a couple...

Ali and Tam's together with Orchestre Malo wrap up our retrospective look at three interesting Congolese LP's released in the...

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...