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When Amapiano Met Gnawa Music on the Dancefloor
Picture the room going quiet for a second, the way it does right before something interesting is about to happen.
Photo by Frankie Cordoba on Unsplash
On one side, Amapiano walks in first, because Amapiano always seems to arrive exactly w...
Gengetone, Nairobi’s Unfiltered and Unapologetic Sound
Every so often, a genre comes along that refuses to ask permission. Gengetone is one of those.
Club Scene in Nairobi (Photo by Dwayne joe on Unsplash)
To understand it, you have to go back a little further, to genge, the Nairobi sound of...
The Cuban Heart of Dakar
Cuban music’s influence on African sound is almost impossible to ignore. It runs through Congolese rumba and soukous, through kizomba and semba, and further back still, through the deep roots Yoruba indigenous religion put down in Cuba itse...
If Highlife Music was our Long Lost Uncle …
If highlife music was our long lost uncle, we would not remember exactly when he left. Only that one day the house felt a little quieter, and nobody quite explained why.
He would return unannounced, the way relatives from abroad sometimes...
The Dance Born from a Thunder God’s Anger
Today we tell a story about Faran Maka Boté, a hero from the Niger river region, as if we were sitting together by the river, listening to the drums and the griots’ voices. It is about his life and the legends that surround him in West Afri...
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