This week, Omah Lay goes boy zone, BKO summons spirits, Chouk Bwa brings the voodoo dub, DoomCannon has a free jazz renaissance and Elow’n releases his solo debut.

In Mali, her home country, she is busy with a project to create an institute ; she recorded her new album Timbuktu in the United States ; and she has recently become an actress in a film shot in France. Oumou Sangaré is back indeed and speaks cogently and with humour about her thirty-year career. Interview.

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 pays tribute to Manu Dibango, who left us one year ago, on 24 March 2020. The musician, a generous pioneer, has built bridges between Africa and the rest of the world. A look back at the first chapters of his fantastic novel-like life.

90 years ago, the South African singer, who was to become “Mama Africa”, a Pan-African heroine, was born. The life of a woman who thought that the fight should never end.

PAM met with Asna, visual artist, DJ and producer at the Antigel Festival in Geneva to talk about her second single “Abissa” with AnyoneID, a track inspired by ceremony and imbued with the digital future of African youth.

In 2021, African rap was marked mainly by the rise of drill, the sub-genre of hip-hop which had a huge impact on rap music all over the continent.

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.