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If Putumayo wasn't marketing African Playground as a compilation of children's music, some non-African listeners would have no idea that the material ... More

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Angélique Kidjo's greatest-hits CD is a broad introduction to the popular African world music artist, whose styles include Zairean rhumba, reggae, ... More

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On her third album, singer Sara Tavares looks as much to her Cape Verde heritage as to her Portuguese upbringing, using her acoustic guitar and a ... More

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Following the wildly successful Dimanche a Bamako in 2008, World Circuit decided to bring the blind Malian duo Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia to ... More

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Alive! in Lisboa chronicles a concert given by Cape Verde singer Sara Tavares and her five-piece backup band before perhaps a thousand listeners at a ... More

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If you think Mali is all about the kora or the Super Rail Band, you need to take a listen to Amadou & Mariam, a blind married couple who take Malian ... More

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Amadou & Mariam, the blind couple from Mali, have certainly paid their dues over the last 30 years, and it's about time they received their big break ... More

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Vintage organ, horns, and funk backbeats give this Malian husband and wife's second U.S. release a different feel than their stateside debut. Still, ... More

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The Tuareg sound has received a bit of airplay over the last few years, with sounds from deep inside the Sahara getting exposure almost as a follow ... More

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While the market for African music is heavy with new forms of Afro-pop, synth-driven reggae, and piles of high-energy soukous, there is a movement ... More

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Toxu, Wasis Diop's follow-up to his breakthrough record No Sant, is an equally impressive amalgam of African rhythms, reggae, funk, blues, pop, and ... More

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Boy Ge Mendes states in the liners that this album is the fruit of a dream and that the lyrics recall magical happenings made possible by a Divine ... More

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Baaba Maal's first album for the upstart Palm Pictures label, Nomad Soul goes through all of the usual motions for a Maal album, which is at the same ... More

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Mali's Amadou & Mariam sing in three African languages and French but more importantly are fluent in a musical language that often transcends ... More

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It's impossible to briefly describe the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars without sounding trite or falling into pathos. How to just mention in passing ... More

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The Malian duo Amadou & Mariam Bagayoko, who both hail from Bamako, have become a world music sensation since they began incorporating other ... More

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This time around Angélique Kidjo has definitely delivered the goods, exploring the African Diaspora westwards, and the effect it's had on Latin music ... More

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Now this is what you call a concept. Take a gnaoua group -- Tyour Gnaoua from southern Morocco -- and team it with Ray Lema, one of the most prolific ... More

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As their name implies, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars are refugees who came together in West Africa. Recorded in their homeland and in New Orleans ... More

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On Electro Bamako, Malian Mamani Keita, a former backup singer to Salif Keita, teams with Frenchman Marc Minelli, who provides much of the music, ... More

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This is the first album released after the less than amicable breakup of the Madagascan band Tarika Sammy. The two front-line singers, Hanitrarivo ... More

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Politically, Madagascar has seen more than its share of unrest and instability in the 20th century. So if you're going to write angry political ... More

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