Master drummer and music educator Mamady Keïta who bore the knowledge of the djembe for a generation of musicians through Le Ballet National Djoliba, his music group Sewa Kan, and as the founder of the Tam Tam Mandingue academy, has passed away.

Pan African Music proudly premiers the Tanzania Albinism Collective’s latest video to highlight and celebrate International Albinism Awareness Day and get the backstory from the group’s producer, Ian Brennan

Poté, a St Lucian born son of the diaspora, releases his second full length project A Tenuous Tale of Her on Bonobo’s Outlier label, piecing together the Afropean sounds derived from Kuduro and Zouk and today’s best diasporic dance music.

PAM salutes the great Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène with a panning shot of his life and a pull focus on his use of music in cinema

The story of how the iconic label and its roster embraced newly independent Africa in the 1960’s. From Ghana to Nigeria and on to Tanzania via Art Blakey, Lee Morgan and McCoy Tyner

PAM caught up with the Caribbean rising star for an exchange around authenticity, the 90s and eclectic playlists.

Shabaka Hutchings talks Dogon cosmology, African flutes and the field recordings of Hugh Tracey ahead of the release of the new Sons of Kemet album, Black To The Future

In conversation with Xhosa Cole on the Pan-African nature of jazz, the importance of looking back to move forward, and the capacity for activism and rejoice through music.