Every month, PAM browses the pan-African scenes to offer a selection of ten fresh releases. This summer we’re soaking in Ammarae’s alté fountain, getting a crash course in Botswana’s Taa language and headbanging to Normal Nada’s meta-kuduro.

From gengetone and dancehall to hip-hop and alternative r&b checkout the artists shaking up the East African music scenes and beyond, passing through Kigali, Nairobi, Kampala and more.

Every month, PAM browses the pan-African scenes to offer a selection of ten fresh releases. This May we’re traveling with Fatoumata Diawara, celebrating touareg culture with the Tinariwen and exploring our feelings with Bongeziwe Mabandla.

This week, PAM Club welcomes Thakzin, a DJ and producer on the rise, lighting up the South African afro-house scene with his taste for groove and well-crafted melodies. Born in 1993, Thakzin grew up in […]

The two Ghanaians celebrate the beauty and strength of Africa in this song that preaches unity, blending the flow of reggaemen Rocky Dawuni and the highlife groove of guitarist-singer Kyekyeku. The video for “Africa till I die” is now released – a PAM premiere.

PAM spoke with HHY & The Kampala Unit backstage at the Banlieues Bleus Festival to decrypt that which cannot be known about the mutant sounds and eclectic vibrations of the Nyege Nyege powered collective.

Tec, half of the legendary Show Dem Camp duo, explains how his group broke through the noise by tapping into the innate frequencies of African music and how he’s been building his empire to support the sound ever since. 

Known for her talents as a singer and musician, the sparkling Jimena Angel shares her recent passion for DJing in a PAM Club fueled by Afro-Latin rhythms, and lovingly crafted from her beloved Colombia. Musically […]