#music of west africa

[nofatclips-home]

Afrika by Dobet Gnahoré

[lesafricainescharmantetfraises]

Beautiful African smile and 🤭 ass are dancing in Nigeria

[the-blueprint]

I'm Ghanaian 🇬🇭, i used to have this when i was a kid, its called Koshkash. This recalls so much memories

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

50's

The West African Rhythm Brothers, a pioneering highlife group formed in the 1950s, played a key role in popularizing African music in the UK.

Led by Ambrose Campbell, they blended traditional Nigerian rhythms with jazz and calypso influences, creating a distinctive and joyous sound.

[homosexual-elder-mckinley]

“Let us smile and laugh-rica” is such an underrated lyric

[capeverdequeen]

Cape Verdean singer Neyna

[notjustpictures]

Obongjayar live in the flesh, live and direct shot by Nafisah Muhtar

[tentacion3099]

Listen this hard jam...

[davidblue1998]

[kbibibby]

parrri parrri

[cinnamoncee]

[lesafricainescharmantetfraises]

Simply black charm - Nakamura

[the-blueprint]

Young artist activists in Washington DC create hip-hop cypher bringing awareness to the cobalt mining crisis in Congo 🇨🇩

Follow @freedomfuturescollective and @congofriends to learn more about the #BlackFuturesonEarth project and the young artists who are fighting for a FREEDOM future in Congo, in the US and beyond 🌎

Black Futures on Earth available NOW on ALL music streaming platforms!

This project was made possible through the Earth Seed Grant Fund from @mvmnt4blklives Black Hive and supported by @ccesolves and @projectcreatedc

[nelsonlantiguamusicgroup]

https://open.spotify.com/album/3LMtFMjGRoZhYOiu3gYtBD?si=80KVOe_uTV2D14BWv1KEDg #juniquickly #hollix #nelsonlantiguamusic #drill #africa

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

70's

Biography excerpt from Last.fm :

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou is arguably West Africa’s best-kept secret. Their output, both in quantity and quality, was astonishing. During several trips to Benin, Samy Ben Redjeb managed to collect roughly 500 songs which Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou had recorded between 1970 and 1983.

The cultural and spiritual riches of traditional Beninese music had an immense impact on the sound of Benin’s modern music. Benin is the birthplace of Vodun (also Vodoun, or, as it is known in the West, Voodoo), a religion which involves the worship of some 250 sacred divinities. The rituals used to pay tributes to those divinities are always backed by music. The majority of the complex poly-rhythms of the vodun are still more or less secret and difficult to decipher, even for an accomplished musician. Anthropologists and ethnomusicologists agree that this religion constitutes the principal “cultural bridge” between Africa and all its Diasporas of the New World and in a reflection of the power and influence of these sounds many of the complex rhythms were to have a profound impact on the other side of the Atlantic on rhythms as popular as Blues, Jazz, Cuban and Brazilian music.