Mamani Keita arrived in Paris in the late eighties as a backing vocalist for Salif Keita.

Blitz The Ambassador talks about the initial reception of his music (“slow”), the musical Fela! (“it

I’m looking forward to hearing Shabazz Palaces play during their European tour later this month. It

The Red Hot Chili Peppers funk jam track Ethiopia came following “a life-changing trip Flea and

Kinshasa-born rapper Youssoupha moved to France at the age of 10. Ever since releasing his first

New video for the Congolese AIAC favorite Lexxus, recorded in Kinshasa, featuring the Kinois rapper LeslyMan.

Easy listening. ‘Bassa’ is a song by the Côte d’Ivoire-born, Mali-raised and now France-based artist Fatoumate

French-Cameroonian rapper Lalcko released a strong record earlier this year: ‘L’eau lave mais l’argent rend propre.’

What do you do as a South African tourist industry when the promised surge in visitors

German-Ghanian singer Y’akoto’s biography on her website made me look up the meaning of the word

You’ve heard the news about Romelu Lukaku? The 18-year-old Belgian-Congolese striker signed a contract with his

An interview in a (South African) Sunday paper with a ‘hopping mad’ Caiphus Semenya (the South

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYngRIzG3Uk&w=600&h=373] “In South Africa,” anthropologist Jean Comaroff tells us in this lecture, “murder rates are held

Not sure whether Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel, El Sueño del Celta (The Dream

Maybe not the most popular artist in Benin today, but the country’s independence day is a

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtZd2uimcuI&w=600&h=373] The other day, we were wondering where all the female African MC’s were at. Give

South African artist Spoek Mathambo gets the Tim & Barry treatment for their online music channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vr1nyXu4Ts Stromae seems determined to turn every song on his 2010 album Cheese into a hit.

Before moving down from Maseru to Cape Town in 2008 and exploring the Cape’s hip hop