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The 10 best Nigerian music videos of the month
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The 10 best Nigerian music videos of the month

There has been quite significant musical output in Nigeria. And ever growing industry, videos are getting more relevant by the day, for a host of reasons, most notably aesthetic and commercial. We present to you, […]

The 10 best Ghanaian music videos of the month
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The 10 best Ghanaian music videos of the month

With Ghanaian artists taking up more and more space on the international scene and Accra preparing to host the huge Afronation festival, we made a selection of Ghana’s best October music videos. Shatta Wale – […]

Ayalew Mesfin: Ethiopia’s funk phoenix
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Ayalew Mesfin: Ethiopia’s funk phoenix

After more than a forty-year absence, Ayalew Mesfin is back on November the 8th with the Debo Band, for a big concert at the Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht, Netherlands. For PAM, the Ethiopian […]

Yemi Alade: “Nigeria is like a sponge, it absorbs any sound.”
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Yemi Alade: "Nigeria is like a sponge, it absorbs any sound."

A very productive singer now under contract with Universal, Nigeria-born Yemi Alade recently visited Paris. She had just released Woman of Steel, her 4th album. PAM met with the highly determined iron woman. Since her […]

The variant colours of Amaarae
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The variant colours of Amaarae

The rising Ghanaian singer has recently unveiled the sensual “Like it” and is currently working on a new project. Due to her musical style, her commitments and her message, she is an unidentifiable artist in […]

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Afrorack: the body to the machine
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Afrorack: the body to the machine

  Brian Bamanya aka Afrorack built Africa’s first DIY modular synthesizer, in Uganda: he foresees that the next revolution in electronic music will take place in Africa. Brian Bamanya radiates pride. A few days after […]

Expensive Shit, a treatise on Fela’s brand of humor
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Expensive Shit, a treatise on Fela's brand of humor

It is this smile with which Fela composed his music and developed a character that, many years after his death, will continue to be celebrated for its strength. Studied, the crux of Fela’s music, although […]

Long live the king: King Tub’s dub in 5 tracks
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Long live the king: King Tub’s dub in 5 tracks

30 years since the assassination of dub’s founder, the King’s legacy still looms large over the world of music. To pay tribute to the King, hailed as the godfather of dub, PAM focuses on 5 […]

Fela’s stories: Confusion Break Bone
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Fela's stories: Confusion Break Bone

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 […]

Top 5 Burna Boy anthems
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Top 5 Burna Boy anthems

Songs which, in its moments of freshness and clout, captured the world of its inhabitants. Both 2018 and 2019 has belonged to Burna Boy. The afrofusion artiste, born in July 1991, is a ferocious talent. As many […]

Heavenly Sweetness highlights the golden era of Guadeloupean singer Erick Cosaque
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Heavenly Sweetness highlights the golden era of Guadeloupean singer Erick Cosaque

The Parisian label focus on the career of Guadeloupean singer Erick Cosaque with Chinal Ka, a compilation regrouping his best work between 1973 and 1995. Listen to the first track here. Erick Cosaque is a […]