African Music Forum

Jive Mabone (Show Them How to Jive), by the Mahotella Queens, the track that was the “basis” (aka plagiarized) for “Jive My Baby” on Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock in 1983, produced by Trevor Horn.

The Children of Africa (aka Banyana) by Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand), recorded in NYC and released in 1976.

“Highlife Time – Nigerian and Ghanaian Sound from the 60s and Early 70s” a 2xCD or 2xLP compilation by Vampi Soul.

Latest album by Afrotronix (Caleb Rimtobaye, producing as Future Tribe), the Chadian‑born artist whose music fuses ancestral rites and Sara, Gourane and Arabic vocal traditions with cutting‑edge electronic production.

Head for Cameroon with Gibraltar Drakus and its Hommage à Zanzibar, a short LP originally released in 1989, reissued in 2023.

Ali Chukwuma, under the nickname “Ali Chukus,” probably for his first album with the Peace Makers Dance Band in 1975.

From an album released in 2015, Tal National offers their “very Rock ‘n Roll” vision of music from Niger.

Thomas Frempong has been a fixture in the Highlife scene for decades, playing with all the biggest bands in the country, including the famous Noble Kings of Dr.

The two compilations “Original Sound Of Mali” offer a selection of songs from across the country in the 70s.

This 45 RPM single captures Orchestre Les Noirs at the height of their East African phase, enduring as a classic of the Congolese diaspora sound of the early 1970s. 1973 1973 Orchestre Les Noirs emerged from the late-1960s Congolese touring circuit connec…