An often-overlooked item in the discography of Les Quatre Etoiles , 1988's Four Stars at the Kilimanjaro (Kilimanjaro International...

For some time now, a dubious operation called "Kipepeo Publishing," apparently based in Kenya, has been peddling on Amazon ...

The all-female Gabonese choral group Missema was founded in the 1970s, apparently with some official sponsorship, with the purpose of p...

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...