Here's a mysterious Nigerian album, Idanre Makin (Idanre Makin EILP 002) I got not too long ago - by a Yoruba vocal/percussion grou...

Footballer, guitarist and composer of many of the most memorable songs in Congolese music, Mayaula Mayoni (1946-2010) has often been ...

Even if I weren't already a huge fan of Lanrewaju Adepọju, I would have bought this album for the cover art alone! Aláfọwósowópó...

I just came into possession of a raft of great Yoruba recordings from Nigeria - lots of jùjú, àpàlà fújì, wákà, èwi, what have you - ...

I present today four cassettes by Malam Maman Barkah, the Niger Republic's acclaimed master of two traditional instruments of tha...

Kudos to The Lost Maestros for posting this wonderful video (from World Service 's YouTube channel) of the Malian diva Coumba Sidib...

I thought I had all of Ebenezer Obey's great LPs from the '80s, until I came across this gem in Dusty Groove in Chicago a few...

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...