Algeria
- Gnawa Diffusion: Baba Salem, Koubayara, in concert in Algiers
Botswana
Cameroon
- “Zangalewa”
Central African Republic
- Louis Sarno’s photographs of BaAka life and music (search Sarno under photographer)
- pygmies.org
- Mbela (BaAka musical arc)
- Oliver Mobelli (harp w/puppets)
- BaAka vocal polyphony
Congo
- Kinshasa Symphony
- Staff Benda Bilili, “Polio, “Auramandole” (Lowlands, Holland 2010)
- Franco
- with Sam Mangwana and TPOK Jazz, “Toyeba Yo” (1975?)
- with TPOK Jazz (1980s?)
- Franco: King of Rumba (CGTN Africa documentary)
- Sesame Street soukous: part 1; part 2; part 3
- Sape: news report; The Importance of Being Elegant
- “Happy We Are from Goma, DRC“
- Guitar
- 1946 Ogooue-Congo Expedition (recordings, photos by Gilbert Rouget)
Cote d’Ivoire
- Group Baraka, “Jackson Mania“
- Tiken Jah Fakoly, “Non à l’excision“
Egypt
Gabon
Ghana
- David Locke’s articles and sites
- “The ‘folkloric copyright tax’ problem in Ghana” by John Collins (Paul Simon’s use of “Yaa Amponsah” on “Spirit Voices” on The Rhythm of the Saints LP)
- “How Ghana made itself the African home for a return of the black diaspora” (Quartz Africa, 2018)
Guinea
Kenya
- Gospel
- “Kiriro,” Daddy Owen featuring Kerah and Allan Aaron
Malawi
Madagascar
- D’Gary “Guitar of Madagascar” extract
- D’Gary IFM 06/06/20
- Malagasy Guitar Summit : “Spain” (Chick Corea ), Madajazzcar 2015
- Fivorian’ireo mpitendry Gitara Malagasy : GITARAN’IARIVO (réunion a titre privée)
Mali
- Bamako Beat
- Tinariwen
- Archive of Malian Photography
- Fatou Diawara
- “Ntereni” trailer
- “Ntereni”
Mauritania
- Dimi Mint Abba: excerpt from Sound of Soul,with full ensemble (tv), at WOMAD 2009,
- Ely Salem (electric guitarist)
- Les Roukaskas
Morocco
- Gnawa Lila in Marrakech
- Gnawa ensemble (from Moroccan tv)
- Gnawa with orchestra (from Moroccan tv)
- Gnawas with rappers
- Gnawa Stories
Mozambique
- original youtube post of Tofo Tofo
- Beyonce and Tofo Tofo
- Beyoncé – Run the World (Girls) (Official Video)
- Beyonce who run the world (girls) n Tofo Tofo Boys (comparison)
- Beyonce: Year of 4 documentary (6:43-9:10; 13:25-18:58)
- DJ Cleo, “NIsho Njalo” (soundtrack for Tofo Tofo)
- Major Lazer (Dj Diplo and Dj Switch) featuring Vybz Kartel, “Pon de Floor” (sampled in “Who Run the World”)
- Art House: Dancing No Longer An Art, But A Movement For Tofo-Tofo
- Beyonce’s Run the World with W Tofo-Tofo (interview in Portuguese; 18:30 money)
- A Guide to All the African Artists Who Appear on Beyoncé’s Lion King Album
- Beyoncé has helped usher in a renaissance for African artists
Niger
Nigeria
- Yoruba bata drumming (uploaded by Debra Klein)
- Fela Kuti
- British Library Sound Archives ethnographic wax cylinders
Senegal
- Trovador of the Black Atlantic
- Youssou N’Dour
- Official Youtube Channel
- Amnesty International, photo (1988), “Get Up Stand Up”
- Grammy award for Egypt (2004)
- “Thielly,” Youssou N’Dour and Etoile de Dakar (with Pape Seck, 1977)
- “Shaking the Tree” with Peter Gabriel (1988?)
- “Seven Seconds” with neneh Cherry (1994)
- “Immigrés” (London, 1995)
- Dakar-Kingston (Dakar)
- Lang
- Ndobine (Bercy, Paris, France, 2005)
- Salagne Salagne (young boys dancing on stage, 2011)
- NY Times article on his run for the presidency of Senegal (1/3/12)
- Baaba Maal
- Black Panther soundtrack
Sierra Leone
South Africa
- World Factbook (CIA); Resources (at U Penn)
- Magazines: BPM; Mahala
- Orpheus McAdoo papers at Yale library; McAddo on Wikipedia
- Tshwane Cultural Troup, Temba, SA
- Isicathamiya short documentary
- “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”:
- Exposé by Rian Malan; Longform.org reprint (Rolling Stone, May 2000)
- The 2006 settlement (WIPO magazine)
- A Lion’s Trail (film)
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- alphabet Sesame Street: as muppets; in person with Paul Simon
- Graceland
- Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes: Music video; Graceland tour in Zimbabwe; on SNL November 22 1986 (26:00)
- Chapter notes to Graceland (Carol Muller)
- “Graceland: The Acclaim and the Outrage” (guardian.com, 2012)
-
Graceland at 35: How Paul Simon recorded a masterpiece in apartheid South Africa (guardian.com, 2021)
- Graceland tour in Zimbabwe w/Miriam Makeba, “The Retreat Song” and “Under African Skies”
-
Under African Skies (documentary of Graceland at 25 years)
- interviewed on BBC
- Lifesavers commercial
- Jimmy Fallon and Ladysmith Snack Mambazo
- Miriam Makeba
- “Pata Pata” (Ed Sullivan Show, live 1967)
- Mama Afrika (documentary)
- Jain, “Makeba”
- “Jain is a Third Culture Kid Ready to Make Her Mark,” (the fader, 2015)
- Jain à Washington” (RFI, 2017)
- Hugh Masekela, “Grazing in the Grass“
- Mbube
- Africa Night Kwaito vmix March 2012
- DJ Witz mixing and scratching kwaito
- Woman playing guitar
- African School Kids Dance Video
Tanzania
- Who are the Swahili People (Middleton, pbs, 2000)
Tunisia
Uganda
- Baakisimba
- Baakisimba (drumming, dancing), Washington, DC, 2005
- Baakisimba (drumming, dancing), Uganda
- Baakisimba, Mesach Semakula
- Xylophone (amadinda, akadinda)
- graphic analysis
- amadinda in Kampala (two players)
- National Museum of Uganda (two players)
- solo and duo
- Kidinda Cultural Troupe (5 players)
- with dancers
- akadinda (3 players)
Zimbabwe
- World Factbook (CIA); Resources (at U Penn)
- Mysteries of Great Zimbabwe (Nova/PBS)
- Mbira
- lesson: Karigamambe played by Manasa
- Nhemamusasa serevende demonstration
- “Nhema Musasa,” performed by Pamuchakata Mbira Group (2014)
- Cosmas Magaya teaching at Duke University
- demo by Tondirai Tirikoti
- “Chigamba” tutorial
- Mbira Music: The Spirit of the People (1992)
- Shona Mbira music (non profit org)
- Guitar
- Jonah Sithole, “The Storm” (1977)
- Tinashe: “Zambezi (2010)”; solo mbira version
- tinotenda.org
- Street musicians (guitar, drums); who they are
- Thomas Mapfumo