Music from Africa
not just afropop and afrobeat - I try to explore the less-covered aspects of african traditional/pop music. heavy on african banjos and accordions here, we also cover congolese rumba… of course!
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The Cape Malay String Band Choirs of Cape Town
The (relatively) unknown banjo-playing songsters of the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa
Khartoum Social Club
A night with the “Buena Vista Social Club” of Khartoum
Ramadan Rush for Taarab
Chasing the moon in Zanzibar to find the Swahili island’s most famous music
AIDS Protest Songs
At the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa
HIV community group gospel in Malawi
Multi-party harmony singing from a HIV group in Southern Malawi
The Singing Fisherman
Out on Lake Kivu between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda
Street Musicians of Essaouira
This walled windy city has it all: Gnaoua, Jimi Henrix, and roaming bands of banjo-playing Berber street musicians
Chechamba -
A tribute to Malawian national treasure and multi-instrumentalist Chechamba
Fife and drum music on the Congo river