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Miriam Makeba, and the fight goes on
Profiles
Miriam Makeba, and the fight goes on

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.

A brief history of soca music in ten tracks
List / Guide
A brief history of soca music in ten tracks

From Lord Shorty to The Soca Boys, Arrow and Square One, PAM tells the story of soca in ten tunes.

5 albums to discover this week
News
5 albums to discover this week

This week, Skales is back with a full length project, DJ Lag makes his long awaited debut, Étran de l’Aïr pay tribute to their hometown, Rokia Koné and Jacknife Lee team up for a Malian mashup, and living legend Bonga graces us with Angolan tunes just before carnival. 

África Negra: the cult group of São Tomé will soon have its anthology
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África Negra: the cult group of São Tomé will soon have its anthology

The flagship group of the island, started in the 70s, has gone through wind and tide. The label Bongo Joe is working to reissue its greatest hits in the first volume of an anthology. While […]

5 albums to discover this week
News
5 albums to discover this week

Where You Are Teno Afrika Following his debut album released in 2020, 22-year-old South African producer Teno Afrika is back at it again with a new set of songs, bringing more vocalists and expanding his […]

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Black History Month: 5 songs for 5 historic leaders
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Black History Month: 5 songs for 5 historic leaders

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 African leaders.

Soft-Bodied Humans teams up with Swordman Kitala on Kaiju Kitala
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Soft‑Bodied Humans teams up with Swordman Kitala on Kaiju Kitala

The London-based producer and the Ugandan ninja announce a new EP with the monstrous track “Bagan”.  On their upcoming EP’s opening track “Bagan”, Swordman Kitala and Soft-Bodied Humans use an extract from a monster movie […]

Awesome Tapes From Africa puts Gabonese harp in the spotlight with Papé Nziengui
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Awesome Tapes From Africa puts Gabonese harp in the spotlight with Papé Nziengui

The American label is set to reissue Kadi Yombo, a monument to Gabonese “postmodernism” from the late 1980s.  The album Kadi Yombo, originally released in 1989, is a particularly successful project in the quest for […]