PAM gets you to discover a first excerpt from the documentary film series Paris c’est l’Afrique (“Paris is Africa”) that French journalist Philippe Conrath directed in… 1989! Here, Manu relates his professional debut in Paris. […]
Released in 1975, the political-funk delirium “Chocolate City” by George Clinton’s Parliament imagined the American capital under black sovereignty and a White House entrusted to figures of Black Power. Here is the third episode of […]
Once a week during Black History Month, PAM will be bringing you emblematic pieces of music from Black American artists that reflect the country’s history. Photo: Cassius Clay & Sam Cooke en studio, 1963 (DR) When […]
Each year on the 1st of February, Black History Month begins in the United States. A month dedicated to African-American history and the African diaspora. This February, PAM revisits a few moments of its history […]
When I say confusionEverything out of-ee controlWhen everything out-ee of control-eeE go be say, it Pafuka-oh (Pafuka na quench) Abidjan, 2001: I receive an unlikely offer. I’m invited to stage the play Le Fou du […]
Throwback to ‘Labanta Braço’, one of the most symbolic songs of Cape Verde’s independence. On July, 5th 1975, this tiny African archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, called Cabo Verde, gained freedom from its Portuguese colonist. […]
It all started that day when a younger brother – and a real gangster at that – burst into my “entrer-coucher” (literally “enter-and-lay-on-the-bed”, a house literally only big enough to place a bed). We’re somewhere in an […]
Pour démarrer en beauté, voici une toute première sélection où soufflent les vents d’Afrique.
On the anniversary of the Brixton Riots, PAM explores the impact of reggae and sound system culture through the events that reshaped Britain’s multicultural landscape in 1981. Header image © Sound System Culture – Nowness “In […]
The life of the late sonic genius, who died in 2017, still remains a mystery. The man is just as mysterious as the recipe for his music. Onyeabor was truly a UFO who crossed over […]
From Haruna Ishola to Fela and Orlando Julius, a look at the formative decade of Afropop. Haruna Ishola Oroki Social Club Decca Records (1971) For many, Haruna Ishola is the best performer of apala, a […]