• Sean Henry Jacobs

Janka Nabay is the premier exponent of Sierra Leone's frantic and frenetic Bubu Music.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The nonsense that foreign journalists, who don't understand Afrikaans or the language's creole cultural history, write about Die Antwood.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Van Heerden was a fixture in Cape Town's jazz and alternative music scenes. His music is now available for purchase online.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

What is that sample of Arabic during Slick Rick’s verse on Mos Def's "The Auditorium"?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Since it is Friday, I might as well put up a few music videos.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Manic Street Preachers pay homage to the greatest American of the first half of the twentieth century, Paul Robeson. The music video by Nigerian Andrew Dosunmu is a tribute too.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

What does it mean when a Tanzanian rapper joins a cypher on BET, the US entertainment TV channel on its biggest night - during prime time - and rhymes in Swahili.

• Herman Wasserman

The curious appeal of a band of celebrity Afrikaner musicians engaging with a quite easily defined past and present.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A busy week means a lot of stuff gets the speed blog treatment. Among others, the African country that gets the worst treatment in US media.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The mixing of popular protest and music in protests over electricity cuts in Senegal.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Cape Town group, Prophets of da City, should get credit for kickstarting South African hip hop. They were also politically righteous.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In 1971, Carlos Santana went to play in Ghana at a massive independence day concert. It felt like being at home.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Hip hop artists from Senegal, to Morocco, to Angola, to the United States perform for Burundian political activist, Alexis Sinduhije.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Robbie Jansen is a key figure in what is referred to as South African, especially Cape Town, jazz.