Reviews
Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba
Born in the US to immigrant parents from Rwanda and Uganda, Somi Kakoma is not only a Grammy-nominated jazz singer...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Diaxas
Like an African version of Jamaica’s Sly & Robbie, Jam Groove are the London-based Senegalese rhythm duo of drummer Oumar...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Mabanzo
This bubbly singer jokes that she grew up ‘pretty much everywhere,’ and there are certainly a lot of influences present...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Seengwa
Mamadou Diabaté & Percussion Mania
Born into a griot family in Burkina Faso in 1973 and a master of the balafon, Mamadou Diabaté released his...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Hard Times Never Kill
In much the same way as the late guitarist Ronnie Moipolai from Botswana, the blind guitarist and singer Daniel Gonora...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Zone 6, Agege
Soaring highlife horns and harmonies jostle with hip-hop vocals and reggae rhythms to create a thoroughly engaging and very modern...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Hello Cabo Verde
‘Fazê Gat’, the opening track on this rather lovely album, finds Adê singing gently in a duet with fellow Cape...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Aja Wele-Wele
The self-taught Nigerian guitarist Oliver Nayoka began playing in church before forming his Talented Fellows of Africa band in 2006....
Reviewed in issue April/2022
