Pitchfork has a great piece–complete with some musical samples–by writer Dave Henshaw–on musical developments in Ghana (no one plays high life anymore), Cote d’Ivoire (“Ivoirian rhythms are so twitchy that crunk would have come like a tranquilizer on this dance-hungry, hyper-rhythmic nation”) and Nigeria (its music should travel easily to the West).

Read it here.

[You can also read an updated version of Joe Tangare’s excellent survey of African music, first published in 2005, on the Pitchfork site]

HT: Pablo Mediavilla Costa

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