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Passed down from generations or remodelled from ancient tradition, African harps have been plucked and carried through antiquity into the music of today. Listen in on the krar, donso n’goni or adungu to hear the overtones of Africa’s stringed instrument.
PAM honors the living legend of dub poetry, running through five of the Jamaican master’s tap natch poems imbued with cutting social commentary, heavy bass, and eternal rhythm.
PAM spoke with Adomaa, the Ghanaian-Nigerian alté singer and actress, on the release of Becoming Adomaa, an honest and vulnerable recounting of her journey through fame and the industry, from disillusion to salvation. Interview.
Led by master griot Seydou Diabate, the Kanazoé Orkestra blends traditional balafon music with a cosmopolitan collection of musicians and sounds to bring the instrument to a new world of listeners.
Unveiled internationally by Nyege Nyege in 2020, Phelimuncasi already has more than 10 years of underground gqom under its belt. Better late than never, the rest of the world finally discovered the South Africans at work on stage, performing their latest album Ama Gogela.
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.
This is it, the journalistic extension of our afro + club playlist is now a monthly series. A rendezvous not to be missed for DJs, clubbers and lovers of dancefloor sounds impregnated with the culture of the continent and its diaspora.
PAM looks at the men and women behind the boards that are fashioning the sounds of afrobeats during its global rise to popularity.
Cette semaine dans le PAM Club, l’artiste avant-club russe Wulffluw XCIV envoie un mix rageur qui pousse de chaleureuses rythmiques afro-diasporiques dans le grand bain de l’apocalypse. Wulffluw XCIV croit en la musique comme […]
The duo Village Cuts join PAM Club to give us a glimpse of their eponymous London parties where Africa, the Caribbean and Latin music are the masters of ceremony. Founded in 2018, Village Cuts is […]
Producer in vogue in the North-East of Ghana, Francis Ayamga offers us a panorama of his productions through a selection dominated by his specialty, the Frafra gospel. Linda Ayupuka was discovered last summer with the […]
The masked DJ and producer Vudufa takes over from Tribilin Sound to bring you the second episode of our series of Afro-Peruvian electronic mixes following the traditional Day of Creole Song. In 1944, President Manuel […]
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.
