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18 Artists to Follow in 2018
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18 Artists to Follow in 2018

18 artists from around 15 countries. Radiant soul, hazy rap, afropop, trap or r&b: here is our selection of the artists you’d better be following in 2018. J HUS UK 22-year-old J Hus hit the […]

The 20 Best Albums of 2017
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The 20 Best Albums of 2017

PAM’s music critics share their nominations for the best Pan-African albums of the year. The list below is made up of personal favorites to the Pan African Music team, and is just a small roundup of […]

8 music videos you should watch this week
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8 music videos you should watch this week

Your weekly dose of Pan African Hits selected by PAM’s editors and writers. Find these tracks on our ‘Pan African Hits’ SPOTIFY and DEEZER playlist.   J Hus – Common Sense Tiwa Savage – All Over Ghetts – Know My […]

+250, the new collective empowering Rwanda’s creative scenes
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+250, the new collective empowering Rwanda’s creative scenes

Nomadic, polymorphic and transversal, the genesis of the +250 is akin to the development of a perennial rhizome. A rhizome so dear to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari who, nearly fifty years ago in Mille […]

Dancing in the dust, Mali’s balani show phenomenon
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Dancing in the dust, Mali's balani show phenomenon

Waists thrust at everything, pounding, shaking, and sending up billowing clouds of dust. Far from the city, particles fly in every chaotic direction as hands and feet beat at the earth. At the Balani Show, […]

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Behind the bars with Jail Time Records
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Behind the bars with Jail Time Records

Enter the Central Prison of Douala and meet Jail Time Records, a label for current and former detainees that reimagines the stigma around incarceration.

B-Threy, dreams and scars in Kigali 
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B‑Threy, dreams and scars in Kigali 
Central African music, in search of lost treasures
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Central African music, in search of lost treasures

Dive into the rich yet little-known history of music in the Central African Republic. From the Congolese inspired independence music of the 1960s, the Bokassa era sounds of Formidable Muziki.