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AFRICA WEEK: ALBUM REVIEW
The follow-up to Aman Iman, Imidiwan: Companions develops the Tuareg desert dwellers' psychedelic, hypnotic sound.
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AFRICA WEEK: GIG REVIEW
Seattle's Sublime Frequencies bring Syrian four-to-the-floor to a church hall. Breaking Western Saharans support.
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AFRICA WEEK: ALBUM REVIEW
He's the son of the late great Ali Farka Touré, but this first album of his own material suggests the Malian bluesman has more than family connections going for him.
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AFRICA WEEK: INTERVIEW
Senegal's superstar on what he's been up to in the eight years since his last studio album, the radical change of style on new opus Television and the power of music as a change agent.
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AFRICA WEEK: SPOTLIGHT
A look at the influence African musical styles and the continent's artists have had on the development of western classical music.
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AFRICA WEEK: SPOTLIGHT
The hugely influential Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer was a musician, activist and icon even before his death in 1997. Now a new generation of musicians are taking on his mantle.
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AFRICA WEEK: GIG REVIEW
Mali's superstar unleashes her impressive lungs to showcase Tchamantché at the Barbican.
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AFRICA WEEK: ALBUM REVIEW
Damon Albarn's Honest Jons label has again been mining the EMI archives, this time doing the rumba over Congolese recordings from half a century ago.
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AFRICA WEEK: ALBUM REVIEW
Ethiopian bandleader Astatke joins up with Malcolm Catto's UK troupe previously known as DJ Shadow's backing band. An experiment in sound, one might say.
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selected African music coverage from our archive
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INTERVIEW
The Gorillaz and Blur front man on Honest Jons, his Mali Music album and involving African artists in the 'western music industry'.
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ALBUM REVIEW
Tuareg tribesmen and former freedom fighters sing in Tamashek and spin a desert blues genre all of their own.
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ALBUM REVIEW
His first album since 2001, Day By Day marks a concerted attempt to emerge from father Fela Kuti's shadow.
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GIG REVIEW
"I'm sure you can get my vibes," grins Allen, the man credited with inventing Afrobeat.
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GIG REVIEW
Desert bluesmen and London folksters combine their talents for a unique collaborative evening.
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ALBUM REVIEW
The follow-up to the monster-selling Dimanche a Bamako pairs the Malian duo with a smorgasbord of guest stars including K'Naan and Damon Albarn.
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GIG REVIEW
The veteran Beninese dance diva, with support from Cape Verde Islands' Mayra Andrade, at the Barbican in 2007.
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GIG REVIEW
Back-to-back gigs at KOKO and the Barbican mix and match African and British artists, including Damon Albarn, Amadou & Mariam, Toumani Diabaté, Johnny Marr, Hard-Fi, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Bassekou Kouyate and VV Brown.
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ALBUM REVIEW
One of the finest and most intimate albums of 2008, from Mali's arguably most independent star.
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ALBUM REVIEW
The master kora player from Mali has been in demand, working with Bjork and the late Ali Farka Touré. Here he demonstrates why.
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GIG REVIEW
The original African Soul Rebel, live at London's Roundhouse in 2007.
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ALBUM REVIEW
A posthumous release for the Timbuktu father of desert blues' final album, produced by Nick Gold.
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