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Salif Keita tonight at Yoshi's SF #african music

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Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 performing at the Highline Ballroom

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Click here for an overview of the show.

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Just Announced: Mulatu Astatke plays Los Angeles on February 21, 2015

Just Announced: Mulatu Astatke plays Los Angeles on February 21, 2015

Mulatu Astatke will play Royce Hall on the UCLA campus on Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 8:00pm. Astatke is known as the father of Ethio-jazz, which blends traditional Ethiopian music with jazz and other styles of the African diaspora.

Special guest Meklit Hadero, Ethiopian-born singer/songwriter and co-founder of The Nile Project,…

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Just Announced: Vieux Farka Touré To Play Stern Grove Festival, San Francisco

Just Announced: Vieux Farka Touré To Play Stern Grove Festival, San Francisco

July 20, Vieux Farka Touré concert and artist talk, opening for Pupy Y Los Que Son Son.

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Check how naturally "Akwaaba" flows into "I Come Prepared." 

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King Sunny Ade and Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey in 1982. Vintage Nigeria

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South Africa:

The Ngqoko Cultural Group

I was once allowed the unforgettable privilege of sneaking backstage to snap some shots of my favourite traditional group from South Africa.  The results are above.

Listen to their incredible overtone singing here.

Considered to be national treasures in South Africa, the members of Ngqoko are masters of the African bow (ancestors of the Brazilian berimbau) and the only practitioners of the extraordinary 3,000-year-old vocal style known as split tone singing (a highly developed form of overtone singing). This ensemble is one of the few guardians of Xhosa culture, maintaining the survival of indigenous South African traditions. Over the past two decades, Ngqoko has taken its music from obscurity to worldwide acclaim. Edited from: worldmusic.org

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My latest recorded live. A replication of part of my set from my EP release party. Get ya groove on!

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NEW VIDEO: Blitz the Ambassador – Make You No Forget ft. Seun Kuti

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Stevy Mahy - Beautiful 

Beautiful way to start the morning :-) 

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joe henderson and alice coltrane

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Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi: Tiny Desk Concert

Oliver Mtukudzi, or "Tuku" as his fans lovingly call him, plays spirited music, born from the soul of Zimbabwe. He's been recording since the late 1970s, with about as many albums as his age: 60. Here, Mtukudzi performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga in the NPR Music offices.

Oooo, check out this man with his stripped-down band.

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Favourite jam from Zambia! Old Skool joy.

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Melo B Jones - Mr. (Ladies) Man

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Ghanaian hip-hop and hip-life rapper M.anifest has released his new single: Someway Bi (Prod. by Young Fly)

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"My jalabiya tailor-made All customized My English, straight pidgin All bastardized

But still,from 6 to 6, with stones and bricks building a future I hope i live to see it”