Reviews
Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From?
The introduction to a third generation of the Kuti family came with Mádé’s 2021 debut album For(e)ward, yet its impact...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Danger
Originally released in 1976, Danger fuses Afrobeat, funk and psychedelic soul with biting political and social commentary sweetly delivered through...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Trésor Magnétique
When legendary musician, poet and novelist Francis Bebey passed away suddenly in 2001, Cameroon lost one of its most celebrated...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Church of Kidane Mehret
In the years since the death of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru in 2023, we have been lucky to hear archival...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Useza
Among the Shona communities of northeastern Zimbabwe, the matepe, a type of mbira, is used to evoke trance states to...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Man Shall Be Free
This Ghanaian group’s debut is a fresh collection of highlife jams. Guitar lines unwind through the compositions like a labyrinthine...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Tsapiky! Modern Music from Southwest Madagascar
You only need listen to a couple of seconds of tsapiky to hear that it’s a party. The style (which...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
New African Orleans
On his sixth album, this bass-playing son of a 60s Senegalese brass-band star sets out “westward [to] begin a musical...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Ma Gitala
It’s been a while since we last had a record from our favourite Malawian busking duo, but Madalitso Band are...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Chule Chule Iwe
Gasper Nali’s third album arrives six years after the previous Zoona Malawi and continues his singular musical journey from the...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
