Music

Zimbabwe: Analogue Africa – ‘Roots Rocking Zimbabwe’ Album Review – Delving Deep Into the World of Zimbabwean Rock

[New Zimbabwe] A vast and ever-diversifying continent, Africa has produced an unimaginable wealth of groundbreaking, inventive, and far too often overlooked music that has since spread throughout the world. Playing host to thousands of distinct sounds and subgenres, the niche and grassroots nature of many of these African music scenes often means that it is easy for them to be lost to obscurity, particularly for listeners hailing from outside the continent. However, this fact also means that the record stores of Africa

Africa: Afropop Top Videos – 5-1-25 Yemi Alade, Dub Inc and More!

[Afropop] Today we highlight six new Afropop Top Videos for April. You'll find some new faces--WhyDee and ESINAM & Sibusile Xaba--alongside old friends Yemi Alade, DUB Inc., and Madalitso Band from Malawi. We kick off with a name to watch in Senegalese music, Cheikh Ibra Fam.

Africa: Jazzahead Spotlights African Jazz and More

[Afropop] One of the Brother Grimm's fairy tales is about four domestic animals - a dog, donkey, cat, and rooster - who are past their prime and are being mistreated by their master and decide to split and head to the town of Bremen, Germany, to become street musicians. While they never achieve that goal, on their way to Bremen they scare off some robbers squatting in a home and then move in themselves to live happily ever after. And while, again, they never actually get to Bremen, the town has embraced the tale of