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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.

Ghana Freedom
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Ghana Freedom

A five-part series providing the soundtrack to Ghanaian Independence.

Carnival around the world
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Carnival around the world

Celebrate with the fervor and fever of Carnival goers around the world by looking into how cities and countries around the world sing, dance and dress to the local and universal aspects of the seasonal festivities in Cape Verde, Brazil and Trinidad. 

The fight for fuji king goes on  (3/3)
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The fight for fuji king goes on (3/3)

Fuji purists and the Nigerian hip-hop generation go head-to-head for the battle of fuji king, but an eventual reconciliation paves the way for the long term prospects of fuji in the world of Nigerian pop.

The fuji boom gets down (2/3)
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The fuji boom gets down (2/3)

An oil boom era and school secularization gives fuji a boost in elite social circles and a new school of pioneers take the reins with a gentleman touch by “King” Wasiu Ayinde Marshal and the salacious style of Abass Akande Obesere.

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The fantastic history of fuji music
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The fantastic history of fuji music

A history of Nigeria’s fast and furious fuji music, from it’s origins in Yoruba-Muslim culture to its modern hip-hop progenitors. Dive into the fanatic music that sprung rivalries, caused mayhem and lit up dancefloors from its humble roots to the global stage. 

The birth of fuji fantasia (1/3)
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The birth of fuji fantasia (1/3)

Starting in the early 1960’s of Nigeria, a select group of innovators transform the sound of Owambe parties and traditional Were music into an all-year-long celebration full of rivalries, virtuosos and names of unlikely origin.

Miriam Makeba, and the fight goes on
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Miriam Makeba, and the fight goes on

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.

Black History Month: 5 songs for 5 activists
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Black History Month: 5 songs for 5 activists

While Black History Month is all year round for us at PAM, we’re going to celebrate this February and publish a number of special articles. Here we have an annotated playlist made up of 5 songs from 5 historic activists.

Black History Month: 5 songs for 5 historic leaders
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Black History Month: 5 songs for 5 historic leaders

While Black History Month is all year round for us at PAM, we’re going to celebrate this February and publish a number of special articles. Here we have an annotated playlist made up of 5 songs from 5 historic African leaders.

African Guitar Heroes
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African Guitar Heroes

Let’s take a few tours and detours all over the continent to discover some of its guitar masters. To hear them at their best you often have to wait until the 1st verse or chorus is over; wait for the song to bloom and for the guitarist to rise.