Willy N’For – Hustle (From the Jungle) 🔗
A compilation of most-sought after Nigerian LPs with Willy N’for. The album has the Mighty Flames at their prime. The quality of musicianship and prod [...]
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Remembering Lucky Dube 🔗
Commemorating the death of an African Reggae legend/icon: Lucky Dube was shot and killed in Johannesburg, South Africa, in October 2007. Lucky Philip [...]
Fela @ Lekki Sunsplash 🔗
The 2 first tracks below were recorded live in 1994, with Egypt 80, at a concert in Lagos, Nigeria, probably at Lekki Sunsplash (Lekki Beach).See Disc [...]
Fela Kuti – Birth Anniversary 🔗
This is the anniversary of Fela Kuti‘s birth (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997). Regarded, with Tony Allen, as the principal innovator of Afrobeat, he [...]
Fela Kuti Special 🔗
This post “Fela Kuti Special” is a selection of documentaries on the life, music and political commitment of the great Nigerian musician (born on this [...]
IR-Sankara Future Dub Resurgence 🔗
Based in Uganda, East Africa, the musicians IR::Sankara Future Dub Resurgence like to describe their music as “Future Dub.” They take elements of nois [...]
Alpha Blondy – Sankara 🔗
Thomas Sankara was killed on 10/15/87 in Ouagadougou.This is the second track on “Jah Victory”, a 2007 reggae album by the Ivorian artist Alpha Blondy [...]
Faradjallah & Attarazat Addahabia – Al Hadaoui 🔗
During the ’50s, Faradjallah was booked as a singer for surprise parties with friends. He started to write his first songs including “L’gnawi” in 1967 [...]
Thingalene – Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou 🔗
Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou (c. 1962 – 4 January 2020) was a Tuareg guitarist from Niger. He was one of the founders of the ishumar genre of the desert bl [...]
François Nyombo – I’m Cool 🔗
To be quite franck, I’d never heard the name François Nyombo and there’s little information about his life and music outside of Discogs. But, if you l [...]