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The Kumasi Trio led by Jacob Sam (Kwame Asare) recorded the first Ghanaian highlife song, 'Yaa Amponsah', as early as 1928 ...

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A new documentary, The Odyssey, will comb through a century of traditional Nigerian music to arrive at the present, say ...

In an ambitious effort to chart the lineage of Yoruba and Afrobeats music over the past century and its global influence, Nigerian superstar Adekunle Gold has co-produced a forthcoming documentary ...

Ifetayo an Afro-centric 1976 album by the unique Trinidadian Black Truth Rhythm Band is reissued by Soundway Records ...

Thomas More’s Utopia, published 500 years ago this month, is full of radical ideas and has provided food for thought to generations of people trying to find new ways to organise society. On his ...