“Justice for Grenfell, Justice for Gaza.” Behkam heard those chants around Ladbroke Grove, the West London neighbourhood where he grew...
A friend who stood by you through the worst days turns up to tell you he’s leaving, and when he...
The elders tell of a sailor caught in a storm, mast snapped and sky shut, who begged the sea to...
Coletivo Carambola singer Ana Queiroz lays it all out on “Corre Atrás”: fifty bills on the table, no change left...
Malaka are sisters Laurina and Sacha Moïsa, born in Guadeloupe and now based in Roanne in the Loire department, and...
Nathan Daems hears a band in every living body. To him “every cell is an individual system”, and a body...
Niger’s public television was still in black and white when a young ANEWAL watched Sam Fan Thomas dance on it....
Afrosideral recorded his Afrotropical Mystic live set deep in the jungle of Bali, with voice and percussion set against Afro-Cuban...
Nigeria’s politicians love to wrap their mouths around big words like democracy, and Efi Cruise has had enough of hearing...
“Na Dem Dey Enjoy Pass” comes straight out of everyday Nigerian conversation, Pidgin for “They are the ones enjoying the...
“Rub’a’Dub Love” is 8-bit digital reggae in the style of the 1980s, and it originally appeared on the album Where...
EYAA takes its name from a cry of encouragement tied to trance. The French-Ghanaian trio put out “Luku Luku” on...