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Kologo player Ayuune Sule releases video for “Don’t Be Lazy”
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Kologo player Ayuune Sule releases video for "Don't Be Lazy"

With his new album, Putoo Katare Yire, the Ghanaian translates his natural enthusiasm to music. Ayuune Sule is a Ghanaian artist from Bongo, a town in the north of his native country. One of the […]

The Rumba Kings: Film gets world premier at DOXA festival
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The Rumba Kings: Film gets world premier at DOXA festival

Two years after PAM told you about The Rumba Kings the film is finally being released. The DOXA festival in Vancouver has selected the film and will screen it on 6th May.

“Satchmo Okuka Lokole”: When Louis Armstrong traveled to the Congo
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"Satchmo Okuka Lokole": When Louis Armstrong traveled to the Congo

When the African-American trumpet player and singer Louis Armstrong arrived in the Congo, the newly independent country was going through a major crisis. But his voyage was met with wild enthusiasm and inspired the group African Jazz to write him a song of welcome.

PAM Club: A Pan-Afrobeat mixtape from Mukambo
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PAM Club: A Pan‑Afrobeat mixtape from Mukambo

Between two cutting-edge podcasts, DJ Mukambo takes to the PAM Club decks for a set that shows how the Afrobeat movement remains alive and kicking. It would be surprising if the Belgian capital did not […]

Francis Bebey classic album, Dibiye, gets reissue
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Francis Bebey classic album, Dibiye, gets reissue

The Cameroonian pioneer left us 20 years ago and now the PeeWee! label is reviving one of his undisputed masterpieces. In Paris, 1997, the capital was a bustling hub for global music. The great figures […]

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Shabaka Hutchings returns from the spheres to talk Black To The Future
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Shabaka Hutchings returns from the spheres to talk Black To The Future

Shabaka Hutchings talks Dogon cosmology, African flutes and the field recordings of Hugh Tracey ahead of the release of the new Sons of Kemet album, Black To The Future

The Busy Twist longs for summer on the Nanko EP
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The Busy Twist longs for summer on the Nanko EP

The Londonian DJ has joined forces with the Congolese singer Tres and the Zimbabwean street band Daniel and Gonora Sounds. It was at a small festival in the Panama jungle that the Londonian producer The […]

Common: “Revolution and love is like a couple”
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Common: "Revolution and love is like a couple"

The American rapper preaches love : for oneself, for others and for a (healthy) life, rather than advocating the swag and the ego-tripping beefs of other rappers. Values that infuse Beautiful Révolution (part 1), his new album featuring guests Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz, and Chuck D.