Vice recently carried an interesting interview with Miles Claret, whose Soundway Records label re-issues “… lost and forgotten recordings from the world’s most vibrant musical cultures.”  Among other things, Claret recounts a visit to the talented but eccentric Nigerian highlife musician, Sir Victor Uwaifo: “Then he took me into his concrete airplane he had built onto the side of his house. It was exactly like being in a real airplane–there were windows all down the sides. But in the cockpit there was a piano. He just sat in the cockpit and played for me as we sat and drank beer. It wasn’t your ordinary day.”

H/T: Naijablog.

Further Reading

Davido’s jacket

Davido’s appearance at ‘Amapiano’s biggest concert’ turned a night of celebration into a study in Afrophobia, fandom, and the fragile borders of South African cultural nationalism.

Empty riddles

Drawing on his forced migration from Rwanda, Serge Alain Nitegeka reflects on the forms, fragments, and unsettled histories behind his latest exhibition in Johannesburg.