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The 10 best albums of May 2023
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The 10 best albums of May 2023

Every month, PAM browses the pan-African scenes to offer a selection of ten fresh releases. This May we’re traveling with Fatoumata Diawara, celebrating touareg culture with the Tinariwen and exploring our feelings with Bongeziwe Mabandla.

PAM presents:  Ghassan el Hakim and the Kabareh Cheikhats
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PAM presents: Ghassan el Hakim and the Kabareh Cheikhats

This new episode in our Off the Map series takes you to Casablanca, behind the scenes of a musical theater company. Directed by Ghassan el Hakim, the film pays tribute to the sheikhats, popular singers of the past who practiced the Aita song.

Be ready, the Nyege Nyege festival is back in Paris!
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Be ready, the Nyege Nyege festival is back in Paris!

PAM and Le Point Fort d’Aubervilliers invite you to the second edition of the Nyege Nyege Festival on July 14th, you know the drill!

Le Guess Who? announces full curated programs by Heba Kadry, Nala Sinephro and more
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Le Guess Who? announces full curated programs by Heba Kadry, Nala Sinephro and more

The Utrecht festival announces the four guest curators for the 2023 edition as well as the first artists as part of the general line-up of the festival.

Stambeli, the spirits’ last dance: a PAM original documentary
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Stambeli, the spirits’ last dance: a PAM original documentary

Discover this three-part documentary series that pays tribute to a Tunisian ritual where music, dance and trance combine to liberate bodies and minds, tracing its traditional origins to sub-Saharan Africa and reinvented by a young guard of electronic musicians.

The 10 best albums of April 2023
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The 10 best albums of April 2023

Every month, PAM browses the pan-African scenes to offer a selection of ten fresh releases.This April we’re dancing to DJ Danifox’s rhythms, vibing to Mau from Nowhere’s lyrics and time travelling with Les Abranis.

PAM Meets Ary Kueka: the island melodies of Santo Antão
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PAM Meets Ary Kueka: the island melodies of Santo Antão

With Cape Verde’s 2023 Atlantic Music Expo in full swing, PAM takes you back to meet a thoughtful and endearing man, a poet and musician, who took us on a journey to his island, Santo Antão.

Analog Africa honors Polibio Mayorga’s Andean cumbia
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Analog Africa honors Polibio Mayorga's Andean cumbia

Ecuatoriana : El universo paralelo de Polibio Mayorga is one of the cornerstones allowing Polibio Mayorga to be seen as a leader of andean cumbia, this fusion of futuristic sonorities and traditional andean rhythms.