Akwaaba meets Carlos Lamartine from Akwaaba Music on Vimeo.

Bintou Simporé, renowned host of Néo Géo on Paris France’s Radio Nova, is interviewing Akwaaba founder Benjamin Lebrave on her show. Bintou spearheads Nova’s Sono Mondiale, and has long been the purveyor of fine yet underrated sounds from across the globe.

With Benjamin, she will focus not only on Peul and Manding sounds from Senegal and Mali, which are somewhat recognized in France, but also on highlife and hiplife from Ghana, which are gaining momentum in other European nations, but remain underrepresented in France. Enjoy!

Update: you can listen to the show as part of the Néo Géo podcast on Radio Nova’s website.

Nnamdi Moweta invited Akwaaba founder Benjamin Lebrave to his show, Afrodicia, Saturday December 13 from 2 to 4pm. Nnamdi plays a lot of party music from all over the gulf of Guinea, soukous, highlife, afrobeat, hiplife, coupé décalé… Akwaaba fits right in, check it out!

Yatrika Shah-Rais, host of Global Village every Wednesday on KPFK, hosts a wonderful show, and also runs a great music program at the Skirball Cultural Center. She has invited Benjamin Lebrave to her show on Dec 10 to explain Akwaaba’s concept and mission, and share some of the sounds from our catalog.

Tune into 90.7FM in the Los Angeles area, listen on KPFK’s site or here:

Today Akwaaba was invited on KALX, Berkeley’s college radio station, for Anthony “Sex 4 Teens” morning show. Anthony was so enthused by Akwaaba that we talked about the label and listened to some of our music the entire time from 9:30am to noon! You can listen to the different chunks here: