African Music on RootsWorld:
Thanks for visiting the African music pages at RootsWorld, where you will find recording reviews, interviews and articles about artists you know, and artists you should know, including Youssou N'Dour, Salif Keita, Geoffrey Oryema and many more ...
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African music... music of a continent. The diversity in styles and the sheer infinite number of artists makes it impossible to be exhaustive. This is therefore only a selection of musicians of some African countries (mainly Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Congo). The selection is... >>read more
African Music Webring: The best African Music Sites around the world - featuring all the music of the African Diaspora. To visit a site click on the site name and then use the navigation bar to hop from site to site ... >>read more
African hip hop: Hip hop from the motherland: African Rap.
This site, originally called 'Rumba-Kali Home of Pan African Hip Hop' was initiated in February 1997 as a platform for information and discussion on hip hop from the African continent. >>read more
Africa Sounds focuses on African Music from Central and West Africa. It features articles on top performers, new music albums, and tour dates. Africa Sounds focuses on music styles including Soukous, Afropop, Ndombolo, Makossa, Reggae, Bikutsi, Juju, Fuji. Africa Sounds also has a history of Bikutsi music from Cameroon, a virtual African Art... >>read more
Afropop: Femi Kuti: Treading in the footsteps of his famous father, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Femi is now the standard bearer for Nigeria's funky, feisty afrobeat sound.
Femi Kuti is the oldest son of the late Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti. Fela pioneered the sprawling big band sound called afrobeat. His 45-minute musical tirades against... >>read more
Afropop: For many years the most popular style in Nigeria, juju music evolved from Yoruba folklore and a variety of international elements. Early in the century, Lagos was a place where local peoples encountered freed slaves from the New World. Together they created a recreational music that came to be known as palm wine music, as it usually... >>read more
Afropop: King Sunny Ade:
Nigeria's King Sunny Adé and his 20-piece African Beats hypnotize audiences with juju --deeply layered, percussive groove music. Juju started in the '20s as local bar music and developed over the years absorbing new technologies and influences. In the '50s, amplification made it possible to combine... >>read more