Oumar Keita sat on the steps of his Sixth Street home, wearing loose, colorful clothes, playing his bolon, a traditional Guinean instrument made of calabash gourd, goat skin, wood and twine. The sun ...

The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) is streaming nearly 8,000 Syliphone tracks at British Library Sounds. It’s the first online sound initiative from EAP. The extensive Syliphone ...

Sterns Music's lovingly put-together compilations of work by stars of Francophone West African music's "belle époque"—the decade and a half accompanying and immediately following the independence ...

Banlieuz'art is a Guinean music group made up of two members, Konko Malela and King Salaman. They modernize the local traditional sound making it accessible to new listeners by infusing it with hip ...

The 1960s and 1970s are often referred to as the "golden years" of African music. As more and more African countries freed themselves from colonialism, a wave of artists emerged who celebrated their ...