Reviews

Zango

WITCH

‘Zamrock has resurrected from its decades of slumber,’ sings frontman Emmanuel ‘Jagari’ Chanda on ‘Message from WITCH’. Jagari, inspired by...

Reviewed in issue June/2026

Son of Africa

Remi Kabaka

Flopping on release by Island Records in 1976 — the label too busy with reggae star Bob Marley to promote...

Reviewed in issue June/2026

Tusona: Tracings in the Sand

Mokoomba

Mokoomba are back at last, six years on from their last album Luyando and ten years after winning a Songlines...

Reviewed in issue June/2026

Chale Wote

FRA!

In the Akan language, fra roughly translates as ‘a mix’ of things, which is an excellent description of the music...

Reviewed in issue June/2026

Artemisia

Art Melody

Hailing from Burkina Faso, Art Melody is a farmer by day and rapper and singer by night, bringing a fresh...

Reviewed in issue June/2026

Millions of Us

BCUC

Ten tracks into Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness’ (BCUC) Millions of Us, there's a message from Jovi Nkosi to producer Sam...

Reviewed in issue June/2026

O Yinne!

Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy

Lively church music based on Ghanaian highlife traditions with a modern electric slant. Guitars, two keyboards and a horn section...

Reviewed in issue June/2026

Madíbá

Blick Bassy

It was always going to be a tough ask to follow up on Blick Bassy's seminal 2019 album 1958 (A...

Reviewed in issue June/2026

Djilly Kawral

Inna Baba Coulibaly

A highly-respected singer from the Fulani community of Mali, but little known outside of her own country and its diaspora,...

Reviewed in issue June/2026

Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground

Jantra

Jaglara is the sound of one man and one keyboard, emanating from the rural al-Fashaga region near the tripoint of...

Reviewed in issue June/2026