Post-Colonial African Groove of the Week #14 – Djandjon
Today it’s back to Mali (one of these days I’ll have to do some research on East African music – if anyone has any good stuff, send it along!) for a classic tune to contrast with the previous “groove” (sorry I missed last week – was out of town in Chicago, speaking of the last [...]
Post-Colonial Groove of the Week #13 – Jimbasen
Today we move forward to Chicago in 1978 for a killer track from Foday Musa Suso’s Mandingo Griot Society. Kane hipped me to this album a few weeks ago and I have been checking out quite a bit since then. It’s amazing that I had never run across it before in fact, what with the [...]
Post-Colonial African Groove of the Week #12 – Alphabetisation
Today we move to the golden age of Guinean post-colonial music for a great track by the Horoya Band courtesy of worldservice. In 1958, Guinea was the first West African country to gain independence from France. They voted for immediate independence and the cessation of all economic assistance from France, and this decision and their [...]
Post-Colonial African Groove of the Week #11 – Allalah Kounoudion
Today we move back to Mandinka territory, specifically to Casamance, an area in southern Senegal south of the Gambia which was subject to both French and Portugese colonial rule at various points, for a track from one of the greatest of the “old guard” of Senegambian kora players, Lalo Keba Drame. (Senegambia refers to the [...]
Post-Colonial African Groove of the Week #10 – Takava Neko
Allright I’m finally back at it here with the Post-Colonial African Groove of the Week with another one from Zimbabwe, this one by the Four Brothers, one of the most popular groups to emerge from Zimbabwe in the past 60 years. As you can see on the left, there are more than four. Actually, there [...]
Post-Colonial African Groove of the Week #9 – Badiene
The post-colonial groove returns from its hiatus to feature one of the greatest stars in modern African music, Youssou N’Dour, from Senegal. Youssou has been an immensely popular force on the world music scene internationally for many years, having gotten his start in the ’70s with Super Etoile de Dakar. He has been instrumental in [...]
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