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Black History Month: 5 songs for 5 activists
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Black History Month: 5 songs for 5 activists

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 activists.

Ride with Marcos Valle on his “Bicicleta”
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Ride with Marcos Valle on his “Bicicleta”

The Brazilian artist starts 2022 in true 80s spirit with a 2 track boogie reissue.  Marcos Valle has been bringing together the heritage of bossa nova and samba with psychedelia, funk, soul and electro for […]

The 30 best electronic albums of 2021
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The 30 best electronic albums of 2021

Listen to 2021’s best amapiano, batida, baile funk, techno, jungle, gqom, afro-futurist and more, making the clubs bounce all across the continent.

The 50 best albums of 2021
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The 50 best albums of 2021

Listen in on 2021 with our pan-African selection from Cairo to Pretoria, Lagos to Nairobi, featuring the likes of Ayra Starr, Mdou Moctar, Focalistic, Nahawa Doumbia, and Kasai Allstars.

Stay True Sounds entrusts its 100th release to China Charmeleon
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Stay True Sounds entrusts its 100th release to China Charmeleon

A mainstay for anyone interested in deep house, Kid Fonque’s label is celebrating its 100th release with an album of remixes by the South African artist China Charmeleon. Read the interview and listen to a […]

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Portuguese-speaking Africa: 10 songs for the end of a colonial empire
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Portuguese‑speaking Africa: 10 songs for the end of a colonial empire

The Carnation Revolution spelled the end of Portugal’s colonial empire. From Cape Verde to Angola, Mozambique to Guinea-Bissau, we look back to the soundtrack of the years of liberation.

The other heroes of the Round Table
History
The other heroes of the Round Table

On 30 June 1960, the Congo (DRC) became independent. Alan Brain, director of the movie The Rumba Kings, and Manda Tchebwa, historian of Congolese music, have reconstructed in detail, with the help of archives, African Jazz orchestra’s journey. On their way to Belgium, the orchestra was in charge of brightening up the nights of the delegates participating in the negotiations, and composed the ‘Independence Cha Cha’.

6 albums you should listen to this week
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6 albums you should listen to this week

Crystal ISSAM ISSAM is a real outlier within the Cherifian kingdom, giving him broad appeal beyond the borders of his native country. Rapping in Darija, the Arabic language used in Morocco and more globally in […]