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A brief guide to hiplife
Feature
A brief guide to hiplife

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.

Kojey Radical gives Reason to Smile
Interview
Kojey Radical gives Reason to Smile

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.

South African artists remember Hugh Masekela
Profiles
South African artists remember Hugh Masekela

PAM celebrates the 4th anniversary of the musician’s passing by chatting with a young generation of South African artists about his legacy.

PAM Club: highlife passion with John Armstrong
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PAM Club: highlife passion with John Armstrong

British journalist John Armstrong has selected the best of his curatorial work for the African branch of the BBE imprint. A PAM Club for connoisseurs! A retired lawyer, John Armstrong is above all a music […]

The Cavemen. championing the highlife renaissance
Profiles
The Cavemen. championing the highlife renaissance

Back from their first headline tour, The Cavemen. recount how they revived one of West Africa’s favorite genres, highlife, for the next generation of listeners.

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The Harder They Fall: A Black Western with a pan-African soundtrack
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The Harder They Fall: A Black Western with a pan‑African soundtrack

Koffee, Fatoumata Diawara, Mayra Andrade, Barrington Levy, and Fela Kuti all step in to redefine the score of the American Western and the forgotten black cowboy on Netflix’s The Harder They Fall.  Netflix’s original The […]

The latest on Nigeria’s EndSARS movement
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The latest on Nigeria’s EndSARS movement

The most recent update on the status and development of #EndSARS and the pursuit of police reformation in Nigeria.

Marcus Harvey drops intimate video for “You Wouldn’t Understand”
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Marcus Harvey drops intimate video for “You Wouldn’t Understand”

The song is the first track from You Still Don’t Know Me, the South African artist’s latest project. One of two children raised by a single mother, Marcus discovered his passion for music at a […]