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Congolese band breaks new ground with sacred drum
27/01/2013 - World music matters

Congolese band breaks new ground with sacred drum

Emile Biayenda, the founder of Les tambours de Brazza, one of Congo’s most creative percussion-led bands, talks to ...

Omutibo - traditional music from western Kenya
16/01/2013 - International report

Omutibo - traditional music from western Kenya

Two traditional forms of music are gradually reemerging again in contemporary Kenya. Known as Omutibo and Omuchenje, these two are forms of processional music from western Kenya.

Brothers in Bamako
25/11/2012 - World music matters

Brothers in Bamako

Guitarists Eric Bibb and Habib Koïté are each established musicians in their own fields. Blues for the African-American Bibb, the music of Mali for Koïté.

05/11/2012

African press review 5 November 2012

There are serious questions over the number of orphans in South Africa, as well as less serious questions over the most popular place in South Africa to cheat on one's spouse.

Antibalas modern take on Afrobeat
04/11/2012 - World music matters

Antibalas modern take on Afrobeat

Antibalas are an eleven-piece Brooklyn-based Afrobeat band. They formed in 1998 just a year after the death of Fela Kuti.

Africa is so wealthy, says Elemotho, winner of RFI/France 24 Discoveries music award
28/10/2012 - World music matters

Africa is so wealthy, says Elemotho, winner of RFI/France 24 Discoveries music award

Winner of this year’s RFI-France 24 Discoveries music award, Namibian singer-songwriter and guitarist Elemotho GR Mosimane joins the ranks of former laureates Tiken Jah Fakoly from Cote ...

Staff Benda Bilili rumba the world
21/10/2012 - World music matters

Staff Benda Bilili rumba the world

Congolese band Staff Benda Bililli talks to RFI about going from the streets to Kinshasa to shaking up the world with their infectious brand of rumba.

François Marry and the Atlas Mountains
14/10/2012 - World music matters

François Marry and the Atlas Mountains

François Marry's brand of ethereal Afrobeat-inspired pop has brought him as much success in Britain as in his native France.

08/10/2012 - France

Namibian singer Elemotho wins RFI-France 24 Discoveries award 2012

Namibian singer-songwriter Elemotho took home this year's RFI-France 24 Discoveries award...

Griot meets jazz on the Paris metro
23/09/2012 - World music matters

Griot meets jazz on the Paris metro

Singer and n’goni player Pedro Kouyaté is the only Malian to have cut his teeth playing in the Paris metro.

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