Feature
Yamê takes the world by storm
PAM spoke with Yamê about the rapper-singer-melodist’s meteoric rise and his knack for lofty melodies and heartfelt punchlines.
Hortense Volle
France
Feature
Oumou Sangaré : "It’s difficult to rattle me"
In Mali, her home country, she is busy with a project to create an institute ; she recorded her new album Timbuktu in the United States ; and she has recently become an actress in a film shot in France. Oumou Sangaré is back indeed and speaks cogently and with humour about her thirty-year career. Interview.
Interview
Aziza Brahim: "Those who seek war have never known it"
With Sahari, a more electronic-music-oriented fifth album, the emblematic musician and activist of the Sahrawi culture sings the pain and hopes of the exiled. In Hassaniya or Spanish, Aziza Brahim’s vivacious poetry carries the voices […]
Interview
DJ Kampire, on the rise
The young Ugandan DJ, signed to the label Nyege Nyege, has become the darling of the biggest electro music festivals. PAM met up with her this summer in Arles, at Les Suds Festival. If the […]
Discover
Dope Saint Jude, a new queer Grrrl who redefines South Africa's game
South-African female rapper has just released her second EP, Resilient, and intends to impose her sharp flow beyond her hometown Cape Town. Catherine St Jude Pretorious aka Dope Saint Jude originates from Cape Town. After […]
Interview
Blinky Bill, trailblazer of the Kenyan urban scene
With his first solo album, Everyone’s Just Winging It And Other Fly Tales (Lusafrica/The Garden), DJ, rapper and producer Blinky Bill puts Kenyan modern music on the global map. PAM met him after his concert […]
Review
Rapper Baloji is Back with a Tortured, but Devilishly Creative Album
Venture down 137 Avenue Kaniama and you will not come out unscathed. The album title is a nod to the street in Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Belgian rapper was born […]