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Personnel Benda Bilili is several Congolese street music artists who also play a fusion of rumba, reggae, and classic R&B. Created by Ricky Likabu and Coco Ngambali, the music group includes four middle-aged paraplegics, most of whom had been limited to wheelchairs after struggling polio as kids, aswell as several …

Group Inerane hail from Agadez, Niger. They’re a byproduct from the Tuareg rebellion from the 1990s. The Tuareg rebellion is definitely cyclical and historical, reaching back again to the start of the 20th hundred years and continuing in to the 21st. The Tuareg folks of North and Traditional western Africa …

Kasai Allstars, a Congolese collective made up of music artists, singers, and dancers from five different rings, were showcased over the Congotronics series released with the label Crammed Discs. Located in Kinshasa, the administrative centre town of the Democratic Republic from the Congo, Kasai Allstars contains music artists from the …

Konono Zero. 1 have mixed the soul of traditional African music using the rubbish instrument concept as well as the intensifying electronic facet of contemporary times. The group’s name was L’Orchestre Folklorique T.P. Konono No. 1 de Mingiedi, “T.P.” becoming translated as “all effective.” (It had been also a tribute …