Tinariwen, Tassili, Mali. Quote: “I go quietly to pay Mizgawa a little visit.”

FOKN Bois meet Irie Maffia Production The FOKN DunaQuest In BudapestGhana/Hungary. Quote: “We see demma Maffia side, but now everything be Irie.”

Seun Kuti, From Africa with Fury: Rise, Nigeria. Quote: “Our ear don’t fool for your words, our stomach still empty.”

Teck-Zilla, Afro J.E.T.S Club Project, Nigeria/Canada. Quote: “No lyrics, just snippets.”

El Rego, El Rego (Re-Issue), Benin. Quote: “This isn’t the sort of one-world pabulum available in your Whole Foods check-out line.”

Boubacar Traoré, Mali Denhou. Mali. Quote: “There’s all kinds of things in the idea of Midnight.”

Various Artists, Bambara Mystic Soul – “The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979.”Burkina Faso. Quote: “The record documents a time prior to the military coups.”

Blitz The Ambassador, Native Sun, Ghana/US. Quote: “I don’t know what the future holds.”

Amerigo Gazaway, Fela Soul. US/Nigeria. Quote: “For this one I was basically trying to recreate the Jake One beat using Fela Kuti samples.”

Various Artists, Chief Boima presents Lone Stars: Hipco and Gbema Vol. 1. Liberia. Quote: “After we ate, and the son and his friends performed for the guests, we all sat through a lecture by the politician’s wife on how being a musician wasn’t a serious job.”