The energy today in Accra was crazy. The game stirred up the city on an otherwise quiet sunday. We've got more pix...
Buduburam Liberian Refugee Camp
Great Just A Band “82” review @ Afrobeat blog
Marc of Afrobeat Blog has been very supportive of our work in the past. But his latest review of Just A Band's album...
Schmoozin’ in Accra
We've been really, really bad about keeping the site up to date these last couple of weeks....
Did we never post this?! Perfect Loosers @ Social Club (Paris) Ze Buuuuula!
Ambolley Rehearsal for South Africa
Many of Ghana's top artists are BUSY right now, getting ready for a massive series of Ghanaian music concerts....
Northern Ghana
Northern Ghana from Akwaaba Music on Vimeo. I've been trying to leave Tamale in the north of Ghana all day, which...
Jali remix contest update – 3 more weeks to go!
I've managed to get unlimited web on my blackberry here in Ghana, and now a 3G USB modem, and before the modem the...
GH Hip Hop & “Afropop” in Tema (Ghana)
Another no-media blackberry post... Long days, hard to find time to upload much from a computer, but here's the...
More Sapeurs in Colors Mag
You know we love this stuff... remember the Gentlemen of Bakongo?
Listen to Skeat – Kwaito Kwassa (BW)
Welcome to Togo
Most people think of Togo as a way to have food ordered. But it's also a sliver of a country sandwiched between Ghana...
Killamu in Riddim mag (DE)
The review is in the paper mag, but apparently not on the website... thanks to our buddy Georg from Outhere Records...
Bonus Goodies from Ghana
These shots were taken in Nima, a predominantly Muslim neighborhood of Accra. Local musicians accepted to do an...
First steps in Accra
We were lucky... LA to Accra via Amsterdam was relatively smooth... No one got stranded in post-volcano Europe, we...
Ghana 2010: the saga begins!
Pretty funny start to our adventure, below are the directions to the house where we're staying in Accra: "In west...
Inspiring: Baaba Maal for Playing For Change
As we get ready to fly out to Ghana to meet with local music studios, it is very inspiring to listen to Baaba Maal...
DJ UMB: House of Afreaka mixtape
We love our global beat-addicted blog friends, such as the cats from GenerationBass.com. We met Vince aka Sonido Del...
Angolan Semba vs Brazilian Samba
Hey African music fans! My name is Catherine Barnes, and I'll be contributing a series of articles to this blog on...
Wonderful -but unembeddable (!) video about Just A Band
Not sure why you would CHOOSE to make a youtube video non-embeddable... hopefully this won't scare you away, and...
Os Mais Potentes “Yoyó” on latest Fader Mag 7″
In the Fader's own words: "The 12th installment of the FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch series is an upbeat one, with...
Botswana, land of the Zebra.. wicker.. Ruff Riddims studio!!
Moemdi runs Ruff Riddims, a music production studio located in Palapye, Botswana. Botswana's...
DJ Ramatoulaye “Aladji” – always appropriate
Blast from the (not so distant) past! No real reason to post this today, except we're on our way back to Ghana and...
Next up… Botswana, Skeat “Meropa”
We're excited to release Skeat's debut album later this month!! Expect a crazy mish mash of kwaito, kwassa house, hip...
Akwaaba featured in the Last Magazine
When Akwaaba boy Benjamin Lebrave did the photo session with NY photographer Mark Squires, he was told that everybody...