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The Zimdancehall Story
Inspired by Jamaica’s dancehall music from the 90s and early 2000s, Zimbabwean dancehall music (Zimdancehall) started out as an underground subcultur…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Kwaito Generation
Producer Brandi Howell speaks with DJ Lynneé Denise, an artist and scholar of underground cultural movements and the electronic music of the African …
4 years, 1 month ago
The Hidden Blackness Of Flamenco
Flamenco as we know it was “born” in Spain in the mid-19th century. But for centuries before that, Roma (Gitanos, Gypsies) had been living in Spanish…
4 years, 2 months ago
Closeup: Echoes of Yaa Amponsah
"Yaa Amponsah" is a song from Africa's earliest guitar tradition, palmwine music. Dating to the late 19th or early 20th century this style developed…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Nyege Nyege Villa - East African Hub of the Electronic Music Underground
In 2018, the renowned music journal Fact boldly claimed that “the world’s best electronic music festival is in Uganda.” In only a few years, Nyege Ny…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Enigma Of Baba Sora
Foutanga Babani Sissoko, known also as Baba Sora, was one of the most generous patrons of Malian musicians, particularly griots, in modern times. His…
4 years, 2 months ago
Closeup: Learning Congolese Guitar
Congolese guitar is one of the pearls of African music. Intricate, joyful and seriously challenging, it’s long been a passion of producer/guitarist B…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Black History Of The Banjo
We trace the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the pre…
4 years, 3 months ago
Toronto's African Scene
Toronto is Canada’s most cosmopolitan city--“like New York but mellower” in the words of Kofi Akah, son of the Ghanaian highlife legend Jewel Akah. K…
4 years, 3 months ago
Closeup: Franco Speaks (1985)
In 1985, Sean Barlow made his first trip to Africa to check out musical life there. Afropop Worldwide was still a dream at that point, but the experi…
4 years, 3 months ago