‘AFRICAN PRESENCE’ SPECIAL: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN MUSIC PT. 1

WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet’s presents another ‘African Presence’ special of the Globalwize Radioshow in cooperation with Hauke Dorsch, director of the African Music Archives at the University of Mainz. Episode #454 focusses on the history of African popular music. It includes music by Mali’s Baba Sangare of R.T.M., taken from the “Under African Skies” various artists compilation accompanying the BBC TV mini series of the same name, Spanish flamenco fusion outfit Ketama playing with the very recently deceased Malian kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté and UK jazz bassist Danny Thompson, the late Gambian jali (praise singer) and kora player Alhaji Bai Konte, the late Guinean singer Sory Kandia Kouyaté nicknamed ‘the voice of Africa’, Senegal’s Cheick Niang Guitariste, the legendary Guinean music group Bembeya Jazz National and, last but not least, the one and only Miriam Makeba.