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
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
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
The tween and teenage girls of Benin’s Star Feminine Band knew nothing – zip – about playing music before 2016...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
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
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
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
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
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
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