Reviews
A to Z
This is Atongo Zimba’s first international release after 14 years and he could not have re-entered the musical fray in...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Tolika Mtoliki
A dozen years after forming as a performance art and music ensemble in Johannesburg, The Brother Moves On releases one...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
We Famous
Having had his career derailed by civil war and Ebola, the blind Sierra Leonean musician Sorie Kondi was reduced to...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
KWEChE
The nyatiti is an eight-stringed plucked lyre of the Luo people in Kenya. Played in a fast and rhythmic way,...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Aado
According to the old Lovin’ Spoonful song, there’s 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville – a number that is surely dwarfed...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Reconnect
Sonia Aimy sings, in her silky, melodious tones, ‘salaam alaikum.’ Set to gentle, chugging Afrobeat, the traditional Muslim greeting is...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
A Touma
Little more than six months ago, Ballaké Sissoko released Djourou, a kora album of glorious hybridity, rooted in ancient griot...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Teenage Dreams
Unless you have been living under a rock this summer, the likelihood is you would have heard amapiano booming from...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Nagtaba
Kandy Guira is an Ivory Coast-born singer and dancer from Burkina Faso, an erstwhile member of the supergroup Les Amazones...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
