Pongo unveils her new video clip “Uwa”, a track from the singer’s latest eponymous EP. Since leaving her homeland for Portugal, Pongo has come a long way before becoming the accomplished artist she is today. The latter […]

  In this week’s program: Princess Nokia shares two albums, 2Baba 9th studio album, Brazilian rapper Emicida strikes back and more.      Everything is Beautiful / Everything Sucks  Princess Nokia  Princess Nokia has dropped two albums: Everything […]

For the first time anywhere, BBE reissues back-to-back two rare LPs that many Afro heads doubted their very existence until now, Wakar Alhazai Kano 9 & Mus’En Sofua. Wakar Alhazai Kano 9 & Mus’En Sofua is composed of four incredible slices of almost undiscovered […]

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 […]

Tunisian producer Deena Abdelwahed unveils an experimental visual for ‘Insaniyti’, taken from Dhakar EP. On “Insanity”, Deena Abdelwahed was inspired by the Mezwed, a genre of popular traditional music based on North African Amazigh scale rhythms. It incorporates traditional Tunisian drums […]

  In this week selection: Kida Kudz’s first mixtape, Scorpion Kings live album by South Africa’s finest duo Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa and many more…  Credit photo:  Nasty Kida Kudz After a heavy 2019 of […]

DJ Mighty and Bone Black speak to their experiences in music, identity, and collaboration with Shap Shap Joburg’s What’s Up program. Swiss-based deejays Mighty and Bone Black were in Joburg recently for a series of […]

Nigerian Afrobeat singer Azeez Adeshina Fashola aka Naira Marley reveals the music video of “Tingasa” with C Blvck from his recent EP Lol (Lord of Lamba). On 18 December 2019, Naira Marley released his second EP Lord […]