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  • Heavy Metal in Mozambique

    Defying conventional listening habits to bring a barely recognisable descendant back home

    Memories of the antipathy towards Heavy Metal To profess an interest in Heavy Metal was once to invite looks of...

  • Nigeria’s greatest lyricist is back!

    "The music they’re calling Nigerian now, I don’t have a clue what it is! No arrangement, no breathing..." – Bongos Ikwue

    Bongos Ikwue Extensive lip service is paid to the notion of the nineteen seventies as a kind of golden age for...

  • Playing @ Work

    Hugh Masekela, the legend, live in New York

    Hugh Masekela on Saturday night at the Michael Schimmel Center in NYC It won’t surprise you to learn that...

  • Ethiopian Dubstep

    "Music that represents the roots and cultures of my country" - Endeguena Mulu

    It gives us great pleasure to bring the work of Endeguena Mulu to the attention of TIA readers. Endeguena, a young...

  • Fruity Loops: Appietus

    Ghana's number 1 beatmaker

    Appietus in his studio Fruity Loops is a series about Africa's beatmakers. Too often they remain unknown,...

  • Africa Now!

    Freshlyground (SA), Lokua Kanza (DRC), Nneka (Nigeria) and Blitz the Ambassador (Ghana) bring their game to New York

    The Apollo Theater in Harlem is a legendary venue. The careers of many an African-American artist has been launched...

  • “Kalakuta Diaries”

    A new book fleshing out the story of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti

    We like neat narratives, stories we can remember and recount easily. But neat narratives sometimes leave us unaware...

  • Eastern Congo: music without NGOs

    The fact that Goma has a budding cultural scene has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world

    Talent competition at SKIFF 2010 (photo by Thomas Gesthuizen) In December last year, the city of Goma in eastern...

  • Full Mzuka!

    Long live Sauti za Busara, the friendliest festival on the planet

    Woman of the hour: Khaira Arby in full swing (Photo: Peter Bennett). We are halfway through the closing night of...

  • Fruity Loops: Cymtom (Lesotho)

    Producer & beatmaker with a firm grounding in traditional boom-bap aesthetics

    Cymtom Fruity Loops is a series about Africa's beatmakers. Too often they remain unknown, sometime even...

  • Ruyonga

    The Ugandan MC on growth, maturity and on being comfortable with his identity as a Ugandan

    Ruyonga When I speak to Edwin Ruyonga – or Ruyonga as he’s simply known – he’s at a...

  • Fruity Loops: Blaka's beats (Ghana)

    Playing the part to make you go eyyyyy!

    Fruity Loops is a series about Africa's beatmakers. Too often they remain unknown, sometime even uncredited,...

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  • "Heart of Light" - DJ Zhao's Classic African Rumba and Soukous mix

    “Heart of Light” , the last words uttered publicly by democratically elected president Patrice Lumumba at his inauguration address, 3 months before his murder by Belgium and CIA because he dared to oppose the Western global forces of oppression and planned to keep the wealth of the Congo for the Congo.  Freedom and hope was killed in 1961, with disastrous consequences, but The Heart of Light can never die… more >