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  • Didjak Munya – "Oxygène"

    Hip-swinging, soukous-fuelled Congolese hip-hop

    Didjak Munya Didjak Munya has been on Kinshasa’s hip hop circuit for well over a deacade now, but...

  • OY - "Kokokyinaka" (Ghana/Swtz)

    Genre-bending, African-inflected Electronica inspired by traditional African stories and proverbs

    OY in Ghana (Photo credit: Nana Kofi Acquah ) You know the sonic journey is going to one of adventure when the...

  • Fela Kuti release

    Limited edition 12" vinyl of the extended version of "Sorrow Tears & Blood" coming on 20 April 2013

    Fela at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, 1986 To celebrate the 75th birthday of Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator...

  • Ntjam Rosie

    Her breezy yet intimate new album "At the Back of Beyond"

    Ntjam Rosie (Photo credit: Lenny Oosterwijk ) There's a breezy feel to most of the tracks on the...

  • Stretching the limits of Hip hop

    Art Melody returns with "Wogdog Blues" [Ouagadougou Blues]

    Art Melody 's powerful, husky voice has been catapulting the Burkinabé people's daily concerns into the ears...

  • "Africa Latina" - DJs Boima & Geko

    Rearranging the lines that connect Africa and Latin America through music (mixtape download)

    DJs Boima and Geko For several years , the half Puerto Rican-half Colombian Brookly-based DJ Geko Jones and our...

  • The Best Of The Black President 2

    2-CD collection with foreword by Akon

    Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti passed away 15 years ago, but to this day his legacy lives on across...

  • Just A Band with a Plan

    Meeting Kenya's Afro Geek Arty Collective

    When Akon went to Nairobi one weekend in October, he bought an elephant and endorsed a 14-year-old aspiring...

  • “24 Hours in a Disco” with Ghana’s Kiki Gyan

    One of the world’s greatest keyboard players, brought down by his $5,000 a day drug habit

    This Is Africa invites you on a journey back to a time before Autotune with African Classics Radio , when singers...

  • Mixtape download: Ngoma 14: DRUM

    New 125 bpm African Electronic Dance Music

    If the world is ending soon, let us waste no time and get on the dance floor. This edition in the Ngoma Mix Series...

  • Unveiled The Band

    Singing for peaceful elections in Kenya

    We're still a few months away from Kenya's next general election (to be held on the 4th of March), but it's neither...

  • The Brother Moves On

    The post-genre South African collective steeped in the politics of post-Mandela-age disillusionment

    South Africa has a well developed indie scene, but even so Johannesburg-based The Brother Moves On are especially...

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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 >