Pure Akan wields his heritage and folk stories to create an empowering backdrop to his hiplife sound. The rapper, singer and linguist takes us through the power of names, history and his latest album, Nyame Mma.

“It Is Like My Music Was Waiting For This Generation” says disco funk relic Steve Monite as he tells the story of his oddball musical career and the massive reemergence of his timeless boogie classics.

From Afrobeats superstars like Burna Boy, alté tastemakers like Teezee or the Queen of Afro-House Niniola, Nigerian artists have taken the amapiano log-drum and shaker for a West African twist on the genre.

PAM spoke with Obongjayar upon the release of his debut album, Some Nights I Dream Of Doors, a totally original dreamlike pursuit of passion that breeds hope for those who are lost.

The young Nigerian trap star speaks with PAM about his sudden come-up and the inspiration and vision that imposed his foreign sound onto the local landscape.

We dive into the French born Badarou’s most well known 1984 classic Echoes for a closer look at the sounds of Wally’s world.

PAM takes you back to when Ghanaians were living the hiplife, a 1990s musical and generational craze which placed hip-hop verses in-between highlife guitar loops.

UK rapper and son of Ghanaian immigrants, Kojey Radical, releases his much anticipated debut album, narrated by his mother and introducing a “space and bass” sound full of funky horns and cerebral lyrics.