Our education in the music of the nomadic peoples of the Sahara has advanced rapidly in the years since Tinariwen...
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Hasna El Becharia is the most famous living, breathing exponent of Algerian Gnawa, that raw and rolling Afro-Berber trance music...
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Salif Keita’s record company are claiming La Différence is the ‘third chapter of an acoustic trilogy’, following his two wonderful...
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One of the great things to happen musically in the post–civil war Nigeria of the 1970s was the birth and...
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The African reggae market is well stocked with artists such as Tiken Jah Fakoly and Alpha Blondy, who regularly draw...
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If the news that there are two new volumes of the magnificent, hugely influential and spectacularly long– running Ethiopiques series...
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When the Nigerian civil war ended in 1970, a period of experimentation and musical freedom ensued, producing some rich and...
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This is an album of ‘township sounds from the golden era of mbaqanga’ –a reminder of the rousing dance music...
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Pascal ‘Lokua’ Kanza has roots in Congo–Kinshasa and Rwanda, two nations afflicted by the greatest contemporary tragedies Africa has known....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
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