African

Do you need African?
Check it out the following sites about African, or search African

• Top/Arts/Music/Styles

» Afribeat - South African based music and arts site. Reviews, artist profiles, and film and music festivals.
» Africa Sounds - Focuses on music from Central and West Africa. Includes articles on styles, top performers, new music albums, and United States concert listings.
» African Hip Hop - Platform for information and discussion on hip hop from the African continent. News, reviews, downloads amd music store.
» African Music Archive - Focuses primarily on contemporary music. Includes projects and a directory of links. [English/German]
» African Music Encyclopedia - African music styles and musicians worldwide, listing of music stores, bookstore, and links.
» African Music WebRing - List sites or join the ring.
» Afro-Caribbean Music Guide - African musicians by style, label, country, instrument, and year. Biographies, audio samples, lyrics, articles, and links.
» Afropop Worldwide - Database of articles on African music and musicians searchable by artist, style, and country. Includes radio shows, reviews and interviews, and a glossary.
» AllAfrica.com: Music Top News - Newsfeed source for news and reports on music in Africa. [English/French]
» CAMA: Explore African Music - Jukeboxes playing African styles and samples of traditional instruments.
» Columbia University: Music of Africa - Annotated directory of links.
» Dandemutande - Worldwide resource for Zimbabwean music includes e-zine, calendar of concerts and festivals, and database of performers, teachers, instrument makers, vendors, and websites.
» East African Music - Descriptions of Kenyan and Tanzanian popular music, discographies, audio files, and a profile of Samba Mapangala and Orchestra Virunga with audio samples.
» Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique - Popular urban music of Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Congo. Includes artist profiles, reviews, and a schedule of festivals in Europe.
» Gateway of Africa - Musicians listed by country and style. Includes biographies, discographies, worldwide concert listings, and links.
» Highlife Piccadilly - African music released on 45 rpm records in the United Kingdom between 1954 and 1981.
» Music in Eastern and Central Africa - Article by Muttu Mondiya Mama about Congolese and East African musicians and their music.
» Musique d'Afrique. - African pop music selections available in streaming audio and through download in Real Audio.
» NTAMA - Journal for African Music and Popular Culture - Articles, reviews, recent releases, events in Germany, and obituaries.
» Nigeria-Arts.Net - Music - Musical styles and profiles of artists.
» Rap, Ragga, Reggae in East Africa - Scenes and the people in the African capital cities of Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, and Lusaka in 1997.
» Recordiversity - Information and images about collectable records, with the emphasis on seven-inch singles from Africa.
» Roots World: African Music - Includes artist profiles, articles, reviews, and audio samples.
» South of the Sahara: African Music - Stanford University's annotated guide to African music sites.
» Swahili Music Portal - MP3s of historical recordings fusing traditional and pop and jazz influences.
» The African Tradition - The roots of African-American music. Includes audio samples of early African music.
» The Leopard Man's Guide to African Music - Biographies, discographies, and reviews of African artists and bands. [English/Norwegian]
» World Music: African Music in Australasia - Includes history, instruments, musicians categorized by country and style, and interviews [Flash].
» Yahoo Groups: African Music - Mailing list established in 1995, open to all. [Requires free membership]
» Zimbabwe Music Guide - Chimurenga, jit, rhumba, sungura, soukous music and musicians. Includes profiles, discographies, audio samples, guitar tablature, listing of record labels and music stores, and links.