At this year’s Antigel festival, PAM spoke with a Zimbabwean poet and Swiss sound artist about their intercultural collaboration as part of SHAP SHAP’s Global South initiative.

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.

After a few technical and administrative problems, Tout le Monde et Personne by Burkinabe Black So Man is finally available on vinyl. Secousse label owner Etienne Tron looks back at the history of this essential […]

Kumasi-based rapper Kofi Mole delivers 8 tracks that dare to be defined, taking PAM through the ideas and sounds behind his second album. 

With a career spanning over fifty years, the Mahotella Queens brought mbaqanga music to a global audience, balancing an urban identity with traditional cultural practices.

Coming of a record breaking year in 2021, here’s our list of Nigerian artists who are set to take over the music world in 2022.

PAM celebrates the 4th anniversary of the musician’s passing by chatting with a young generation of South African artists about his legacy.

60 years of Elza Soares’ career as the voice of the millennium.

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. 

Was the French writer and composer out of ideas ? Looking for a second wind ? His sixth album, the avant-gardiste Gainsbourg Percussions, was largely ” borrowed “from African artists. Who he did not credit.

Long nights of ecstatic singing and dancing, ritual offerings, fiery percussion, and a few tons of incense… PAM takes you right into the heart of Egyptian Zãr – a trance ritual where women are said to be possessed by djinn – surviving in Cairo by grace of its last priestesses.