"Ngui-Ngon" appears on Tiers Monde Cooperation's debut LP. Fortunately, sharing music that’s decades past its press cycle is one purpose of this column. The Listener is for whatever we like, and ...

On the heels of British producer Kode9’s transcendent set at Los Globos on Monday arrives another Hyperdub Records-related burst of pleasure: a new mix of African tracks, most from South Africa, by ...

Soukous, the infectious driving pop music from Zaire, reached an international audience in the 1980s when a community of self-exiled African musicians turned Paris into the Western capital of Afropop.

The large number of Congolese car guards working around the Cape Town CBD is unfortunately misleading reckons Miguel Katshiete, the dynamic founder of La Diaspora Congolaise Cape Town which he set up ...

Kasai Masai brought their blend of soukous and rumba with a blend of congolese sounds into our studio. The band members which included lead singer and percussionist Nickens Nkosi, drummer Jean Claude ...

If you hear a lion roaring in Prospect Park tomorrow, have no fear – it’s bound to be Thomas Mapfumo, who is headlining the 14th annual Celebrate Brooklyn African Festival. Mapfumo, nicknamed “The ...

For more than 20 years, the Road to Afro Roots Fest has marked the evolution of African culture in our communities. Enjoy this celebration as it enters a third decade at Guanabanas Island Restaurant & ...