* I just got the Wax Poetics Africa Issue in the mail. Though the issue may give the impression that good music stopped being produced in Africa since the 1970s–in part it reads like a tribute issue with articles about Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, the Rail Band, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, Hugh Masekela, Lemi Ghariokwu, Orchestra Baobab, and Pax Nicholas, among others–it is worth buying. If only for the sentimental value. It comes complete with a downloadable playlist of the songs discussed in the issue.
