A while back I made a few posts devoted to to music from Anioma , or the Igbo-speaking region of Delta State in Nigeria, immediately t...

We return once again to the Niger River Delta , and some more Ijaw-language highlife music in the style known as awijiri . The rather...

Acclaimed as one of Congo's greatest female singers, Tshala Muana over four decades in the business has emerged as the internati...

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...