The Kenyan-born composer takes us to the happy places and memories of her home country using field recordings, experimental electronics and her own voice. Composed with birdsongs, ethereal voices and no audible instruments, “Equator Song” […]
After a break of almost two years, the South African bad grrrl returns in sensual style with a modern and lush video. “Home” is Dope Saint Jude’s take on a romantic song. Addressing the intimacy […]
Each week in our Pan African Rap playlist, discover the latest and greatest rap from across the African continent and its diaspora.
The Nigerian-British band announces Electricity, a new futuristic Afro-dance album produced by synthpop band Hot Chip. The collaboration between Ibibio Sound Machine and British band Hot Chip was born out of a shared love of […]
The American label is set to reissue Kadi Yombo, a monument to Gabonese “postmodernism” from the late 1980s. The album Kadi Yombo, originally released in 1989, is a particularly successful project in the quest for […]
The legendary singer announces a new album with “Ti Zuela”, first single from a project full of memories and tender nostalgia. The Angolan childhood of José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho alias Bonga, in the mid-1940s, […]
At the crossroads of hip-hop, jazz and blues, American rapper Maddox explores the history of the Haitian general in a show soon to be presented in Paris. Napoleon Maddox, an American rapper who recently moved […]
PAM presents an exclusive premier of Unpop Live’s Village Frequency Edition, an immersive livestream inviting 5 acts to showcase their tonic, healing and meditative music in the Credo Mutwa cultural village.