I just came into possession of a raft of great Yoruba recordings from Nigeria - lots of jùjú, àpàlà fújì, wákà, èwi, what have you - and I'll be ...

Here's a mysterious Nigerian album, Idanre Makin (Idanre Makin EILP 002) I got not too long ago - by a Yoruba vocal/percussion group led by Francis ...

Acclaimed as one of Congo's greatest female singers, Tshala Muana over four decades in the business has emerged as the international ambassadress for ...

We return once again to the Niger River Delta, and some more Ijaw-language highlife music in the style known as awijiri. The rather melancholy vocals ...

Sisca Many years ago, Matthew Temple's Matsuli Music blog posted a series of fifty compilations, African Serenades. Back in 2007, I assembled a ...

Mbolatiana Since posting Malagasy Divas back in January, I've been continuing my explorations of Malagasy music via YouTube, and have come to a ...

If you're in the market for sweet, smooth Ghana highlife music, Nana Tuffour always delivers! James Kwaku ("Nana") Tuffour was born on Valentine's ...