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Ghana’s Golden Voice of Africa got a second career at Glastonbury: Pat Thomas and the Kwashibu Area Band
Pat Thomas, known as the Golden Voice of Africa, became a highlife star in Ghana in the 1970s…
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“Without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat”: the drummer who built Fela’s rhythm
Tony Allen, the Lagos-born drummer, created the rhythmic foundation of Afrobeat with Fela Kuti in the Africa 70…
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Cream’s drummer drove across the Sahara to Lagos and played with Fela: Ginger Baker’s African years
In the early 1970s, Ginger Baker, the drummer of Cream, drove a Land Rover across the Sahara to…
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One Letter, Forty Years Apart: Afrobeat vs Afrobeats in 12 Facts
Afrobeat vs Afrobeats explained: how Fela Kuti named his sound in Accra, why a London DJ added the…