Reviews
Afro Funk
When the former French colony of Dahomey gained its independence in 1960, it launched a surge of artistic creativity in...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2023
Hope
Soweto Gospel Choir have hit on a winning formula that has brought them three Grammys and performances before president Obama...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
$/He Who Feeds You…Owns You
In a terrific transition from the protest music of their last album, Tolika Mtoliki, The Brother Moves On's fourth record...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Badinyaa Kumoo
Long respected as the first internationally successful female kora player, it is more than a decade since Sona Jobarteh's last...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Roi Du Ziglibithy
This reissue collects four tracks by Ernesto Djédjé, the guitarist from Ivory Coast who made his first singles in Paris,...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
N’Djila Wa Mudujimu
Lady Aicha & Pisco Crane''s Original Fulu Miziki Band of Kinshasa
This is the DIY eco-punk essence, Congo-style. Everything about Fulu Miziki has been repurposed from material rescued from the junkpile,...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Jaku Mumor (Ancestral Spirit)
Born into a family of musicians and storytellers on Ghana's Atlantic coast, Okaidja Afroso learned to sing seafaring songs as...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Sonbonbela
Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band
According to a somewhat over-excited press release, the third album by Burkina Faso's Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band is...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Archeology
Montparnasse Musique are an unstoppable Afro-Futurist dynamic duo: Algerian-French DJ/producer with a visual arts background, Nadjib, and South African house...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga and Rumba, 1980-1985
It's indicative of how the music of East Africa has been overshadowed by its West African cousin that none of...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
