The fourth volume of the Digital Indigenous series highlights the work of Malawi talent DJ Kapwanthi, gathering his beat-style, high-energy sound in a 7-track opus, available April 4th. Honoring African trailblazers in the eastern countries […]
Anchored in the ancient and troubled history of the Beja people, Noori and His Dorpa Band use the Beja’s unknown melodies as an act of resistance for the historically marginalized group of Sudan’s Eastern Desert.
After making enormous strides since his 2017 debut, singer-songwriter Lekan Osifeso Jnr., more commonly known as Lojay, says he’s excited about how things are going to go for 2023.
A Message From Mozambique is a 50-year-old masterpiece, sublimed by Juju’s cosmic jazz and strong stances on Black liberation.
The South African vocal duo, joined by cellist Clément Petit, unveil an elegant and delicate collaborative album, intimately exploring the complexities of human relationships, the willingness to let go and the changing seasons.
Pan African Music’s weekly DJ mix series now has a limited selection available for stream on Apple Music via our new DJ portal.
Check out this selection of hot new Nigerian artists who are going viral and taking the spotlight, writing hits, making names and set to make their mark on 2023.
PAM brings you the latest hits in Nigerian music, from Afrobeats and Afropop to superstars and up-and-comers. Dive into 2022’s hottest new Nigerian records.
Rap is a genre that never stands still, so PAM brings you the latest developments from the African continent. Here is our selection of the 10 best tracks released over the last three months.
Introducing a list of the Kenyan and Ugandan changemakers that are channeling a future-facing sound into the East African music scene using global inspiration and new technologies.
Inventive labels are revealing to the world forgotten musical gems, full of history and lost to the archives. Here’s a selection of some of the best African reissues of 2022.
Discover a selection of East Africa’s emerging R&B talents, from Kenya to Sudan, who are shaking things up in one of the region’s most creative scenes.
Based in Nairobi, DJ Shock opens a South African portal with a mix dedicated to deep-house label, Stay True Sounds.
The duo Bantu Spaceship lands in the PAM Club with a selection of songs at the genesis of their eponymous debut album at the crossroads of traditional and contemporary Zimbabwean music.
Live from Madrid, La Santa presents her last compilation for Redolent Music Records in a tribal, luminous, afro-house PAM Club. Charismatic DJ and producer, La Santa gets her positive essence from her diverse influences and […]
From Stockholm, the artist with Gambian roots, Mansa, questions the diasporic context in which he evolves through a DJ set guided by movement and emotions. Coming from a Swedish-Gambian family, Mansa was born in Sweden, […]
Julius Nyerere aka Mwalimu was a pan-Africanist icon with a taste for music. PAM recounts how Tanzania’s first president birthed the muziki wa dansi movement with state sponsored bands.
Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia and pan-African instigator, created an apocryphal personality and reign that has resonated into the reggae Rastafari and Africa’s modern political backdrop.
90 years ago, the South African singer, who was to become “Mama Africa”, a Pan-African heroine, was born. The life of a woman who thought that the fight should never end.
With a career spanning over fifty years, the Mahotella Queens brought mbaqanga music to a global audience, balancing an urban identity with traditional cultural practices.
Binda Ngazolo, whose training owes a lot to Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s albums, revisits the meaning and context of some of his most remarkable songs. In Fela’s own words. Today, “Sorrow Tears and Blood”
Musicians have always travelled. Willy N’for had all the necessary ingredients to want to travel, a troubled past, a complicated life, dexterity with the bass guitar, and an appetite for travelling on the interstellar grooves of funk, with dreams of jamming with giants.
