Reviews
World Spirituality Classics, Vol 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah
When Alhaji Waziri Oshomah started his band in Afenmailand in southern Nigeria’s Edo state they would walk miles to gigs...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Ela Ela
This is a Franco-Malagasy fusion led by Berikely who sings and plays the kabossy (an acoustic box guitar with four...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Where We Are
This second album by Bristolian Afrobeat specialists No Go Stop benefits from a powerful production, the 12-piece band tightly arranged...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
In Paris
The tween and teenage girls of Benin’s Star Feminine Band knew nothing – zip – about playing music before 2016...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Recordar é Viver: Antologia Vol 1
This anthology provides an excellent opportunity to expand any record collection that’s light on the music of São Tomé and...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Do You Know a Place Called Flekkeröy?
Scandinavia in recent years has provided a home for many fine African musicians and the Gambian-born Denmark-based kora player Dawda...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
The Movers Vol 1: 1970-1976
For a band that reportedly sold 500,000 copies of its debut album in 1970 and managed to break the colour...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
African Journey
Glenn Keiles is an established composer and producer who first opened a studio in Brixton, London in 1982, spending the...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Roforofo Fight
Following Fela Kuti’s trip to the US in 1969, he returned to Nigeria with a revolutionary mission, changed the name of his...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
