Each week in our Pan African Rap playlist, discover the latest and greatest rap from across the African continent and its diaspora.
For a long time, Nairobi has been in the spotlight with its rapidly growing music scene. The world got a sneak peek of the country’s scene from legendary Nairobi drill artists Buruklyn Boyz in “BBC” […]
Our week’s selection includes a rebajada compilation, Tuareg blues, Mzukulu’s latest, the good vibes of Trazyx and the afrofuturist techno of Dopplereffekt.
PAM met Ikoqwe, an Angolan hip-hop duo made up of Pedro Coquenão and Luaty Beirão, off-stage at Rennes’ Transmusicales Festival for a cosmic detour discussing the essence of hip-hop, iconoclastic political activists and the reimagining Angolan sound samples.
Label Nyege Nyege announces the release of Durban-based band Phelimuncasi’s second album entitled Ama Gogela. Driven by a need to produce politically-motivated music and to shake things up, the trio made of band members Malathon […]
For the third and final in our series on classic albums recorded in Paris in the eighties and nineties during the first coming of “world music” we consider Le Voyageur by Papa Wemba.
The Ivorian Chabela shares her love for electro-traditional fusions in a set calibrated for the dancefloors of sunny festivals. In Abidjan and across Africa, Isabelle aka Chabela is known for her role as director of […]
Analog Africa announces the release of a new limited dance edition of Orchestre Massako with band leader Mack-Joss and features of Amara Touré available on June 3rd . The latest LP from Analog Africa compiles […]