• Zachary Rosen

Weekend Music Break Number 57 includes a tribute to Fela Kuti, music from Lesotho, and the fast rapping of Sarkodie.

• Matt Temple

Sathima had the unique ability to strike first at your heart, not unlike the experience of hearing Billie Holiday for the first time.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Africa Is a Country

• Tom Devriendt

• Dylan Valley

When the author heard Astatke's music, it was like listening to hip-hop for the first time.

• Tom Devriendt

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Blitz the Ambassador talks to us about his new EP, 'The Warm Up,' ahead of his Brooklyn, NY, show tonight.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Corinna Jentzsch

For young musicians in Mozambique, "a career in music is a pipe dream." The project, Wired for Sound, wants to change that.

• Africa Is a Country

• Zachary Rosen

• Tom Devriendt

Weekend Break Number 52 feature, among others, Buika, TV On The Radio, Alex Lomani, Ill Skillz, Tamikrest and Stromae.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The contradictions and tensions in pop legend Michael Jackson's relationship with the African continent.

• Africa Is a Country

"We've got Ferraris in Africa. What they gon' say now?", says one of the young people in a new video. Is that the ethics of South Africa's young?

• Zachary Rosen

There is a time for everything: Between Afropunk and the passing of a musical legend, Sathima Bea Benjamin, is our Weekend Music Break.

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

Alex Lomani is part of the Congolese diaspora, who has lived in the US, the DRC and South Africa. He has just released "Mélancolie Joyeuse," a free EP on Bandcamp of four songs that each speak to his personal experience over the past couple of years.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This week's Weekend Music Break, no. 50, includes a homage to the 34 striking miners murdered by South African police in August 2012.

• Zachary Rosen

Weekend Music Break 49 makes stops in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and with the diaspora in Australia, among others.