A selection of our favorite pan-African artists from The Hague’s eleventh Rewire Festival, bringing together a wide range of musical and interdisciplinary performances, specially commissioned works, club nights and more.
Julius Nyerere aka Mwalimu was a pan-Africanist icon with a taste for music. PAM recounts how Tanzania’s first president birthed the muziki wa dansi movement with state sponsored bands.
PAM looks at the men and women behind the boards that are fashioning the sounds of afrobeats during its global rise to popularity.
The Congolese musician and former member of Afro Fiesta takes his world renowned talents solo with a single announcing his debut album Don’t Give Up. Born in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of […]
The Dutch-Ghanaian rapper and producer releases the visuals to a fan favorite off his latest album From Back to Back about returning to his Ghanaian roots. Kay Slice is a fast rising artist from the […]
Writing about Busi Mhlongo is quite an emotional task and it’s this constant negotiation between language’s failure and the most optimistic part of me that absolutely needs to deliver the truth about Mhlongo’s importance in […]
The two London-based artists switch between rap and free jazz on this moving track, deeply rooted in our contemporary issues. DoomCannon is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist from London. When he’s not playing free jazz […]
The violin – in all its forms – undoubtably plays a major role in the music of the African continent. Here we present an overview of the stringed instrument, played by those who made it famous in the past, as well as those who celebrate its resonance today.