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Memories, not mystery
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When mailmen bring me rumba
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A rock return
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Before they juju’d
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Konomo Memories
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Six strings, adapted
(4)
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See you Friday?
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A wonderful rip
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(4)
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Vieux makossa for a happy birthday
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A man of many strings
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Rumba, she spreads like wildfire
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(2)
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(14)
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Multiple origins
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Adieu Madilu
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Missing the beach
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Lullaby
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Makes Me Wanna Xhosa
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Benga in America
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The Highlife Turntable Vol. 5
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Get out of my house!
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July 2007
(5)
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Everybody do the Alcatraz
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Chants of Cartagena
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Love the Luo
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Guitars for the Grand-Place
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Congolese Kenya
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Coup for hire
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6-1, 6-2, Angola
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The Queen Mother of Bikutsi
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Beja Blues
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Begging a remake
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Notes, shows and tracks
(1)
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The intro
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Better live
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May 2007
(11)
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A little polish
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Southern Rock
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Small truths
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Different vehicles
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The post-secondary pair
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A history of not separating
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Studio Gems
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Highlife’s lasting influence
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The Palme d’Or and a Zulu
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Sufi gambusi
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The Highlife Turntable Vol. 4
(13)
April 2007
(8)
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Late bloomer
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All the Falls, remixed
(2)
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Collisions
(5)
11:
Tinariwen’s got a whole lotta love
(3)
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Concert season
(1)
13:
It stays with you
(1)
17:
The Wolof rap talent pool
(1)
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Oscar Valdes y Diakara
(2)
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(10)
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Cabo Verdian Struggle Guitar
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Completing Angola
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Pan-Portuguese West-Africa
(2)
07:
The Lusophone Sound
(1)
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Rainy Day Luso
(4)
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Angolan Youngstas
(7)
27:
Rumba in prison
(8)
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Vaovy
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Post-War BOMB!!!
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From the Baku desert to Canadian forests
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February 2007
(9)
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No second fiddle
(3)
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That’s not Breton
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Vieux Farka Touré Remix Contest
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Highlife for domestic onions
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When all was rosy at the Zimpop revolution
(3)
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Drive safely
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Strings for your paperwork
(3)
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Groovy Naija
(5)
26:
The Highlife Turntable: Vol. 3
(6)
January 2007
(11)
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Keep it simple
(5)
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Diamonds and the laundry
(7)
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Cheikh then, Cheikh now
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Fathy Salama
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Awesome.
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The Elusive Charlotte
(1)
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Perseverance
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(1)
29:
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(1)
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The African Costes
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Teug ak naari loxo
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(9)
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(6)
03:
Give me some more, Maurice
(4)
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Onwards, Algeria
(1)
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Les Espoirs de Corinthie
(6)
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The highlife listening booth, vol. 2
(5)
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Malika & Militis
(2)
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The Barber of Marrakech
(5)
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Not exactly Christmas music
(23)
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(13)
November 2006
(7)
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Thiaroye, then up up
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Something for the Monday
(6)
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On your left hand side
(4)
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Sarah Harmer’s Swahili Flamenco
(6)
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Kenyan Pitchfork
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Kifoto links
(2)
29:
Clothes full of cash
(2)
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(21)
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Cruisin’ 67
(2)
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More Momo
(5)
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Phil & Kenny Rock Africa
(8)
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Swahili Disco in 1970s New York
(13)
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Listener all-stars
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Benn loxo remixed
(6)
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Awadi, before
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Monday listening
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Guests recovered
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Lebo R.I.P.
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Hallowe’en on the Nubian Nile
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September 2006
(13)
01:
The highlife listening booth, vol. 1
(1)
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How to release 100 albums and be forgotten
(14)
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Tell your Thursday not to worry
(6)
08:
Re-post Requests
(16)
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Your favourite African album covers
(4)
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Michael’s picks
(2)
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More covers from across the continent
(5)
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Jackets III
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Happy birthday, Benn loxo!
(7)
August 2006
(13)
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Travel Music
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King of the Twist
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Instrumental rentrée
(1)
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Semba to Samba
(5)
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Fra Fra Sound
(0)
18:
A man of a thousand stories
(4)
21:
Tom Waits in Guinea
(11)
22:
Scholarships save lives
(2)
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Ogopa Deejays
(5)
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Every day is like Christmas
(7)
25:
Bodega Music
(13)
28:
Taarab, despite the drizzle
(7)
31:
Batman Samini
(14)
July 2006
(6)
07:
I will soon visit Zanzibar
(1)
08:
Relaxing in Sudan
(6)
20:
The Comorian Effect
(5)
25:
More than a one-hit
(3)
29:
Nubia’s second soul
(4)
31:
Guinness à la Rwandese
(1)
June 2006
(13)
04:
Tuareg Help
(2)
05:
If God Played Guitar
(3)
08:
The Togo Upset?
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Cogwheels, machetes and football
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New domain: bennloxo.com
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Ultimate relaxation in Zanzibar
(2)
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Zola from Zola
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Harmony and drought
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May 2006
(8)
12:
Pan-Africa (in a tent in Paris)
(5)
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The sun is back, dance that living room
(5)
14:
Highlife and the ballet
(6)
25:
Gnawa, a little further south
(5)
26:
Beats, not the kora
(9)
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Let the machine decide
(2)
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I am destined to love
(1)
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The Moorish example
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(14)
01:
How to put on a show
(14)
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Monday Mbaqanga
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200 and still full of sabar
(8)
05:
Prince of the valiha
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When you drop the Comoros
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1600m to Madagascar
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Tolinga Virunga (We Love Virunga)
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When World Music Goes Wrong
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The Benn loxo community
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Cane harvest expressions
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More love from the Comoros
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(6)
07:
Rest in peace, Mali blues
(17)
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Searching for East Africa
(2)
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Concert season
(8)
13:
A beautiful voice
(2)
20:
Shipwreck Africa
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26:
Spreads like a lovely wildfire
(12)
February 2006
(8)
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The Ivoirian Middle East
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Mali: full of surprises
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Four-part style
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Catchy flat horns
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Sunday morning music
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Your cousin is a rockstar
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January 2006
(8)
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Horn chops from the Gulf of Guinea
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The King down South
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Twist like it’s Kiswahili
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Often imitated, never duplicated
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RFI All-Star
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Progressively unplugging
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Unrelated Keita
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Oh.. wait.. there’s the break! Exhale.
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December 2005
(1)
11:
Gnawa revival
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November 2005
(3)
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Soothing headache music
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More acoustic mbalax
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Landmines and a calming semba
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October 2005
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Guinean Dance Bands and the Circus
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Burkinabé souvenirs
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Mande, Mali, Beautiful
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Lazy Gambian soirées
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Franco remembered
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20:
New Namib
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Cameroon Week
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I’m over it.
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More mystery, more Cameroon
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Afrique an Hallowe’en
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September 2005
(6)
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Were mysteries, new fuji
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Vinyl sabar
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Pick me up, afrocuba
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Japan, Mali and the techno influence
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Happy Birthday, Benn loxo
(21)
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Sounds for a civil war
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August 2005
(13)
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Gifts from the Mainland
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Strumming for smokes
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11:
Laid-back highlife royalty
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Marabi jazz
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Tanned and not ready
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From a Malian string
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Off-continent
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Moody Keita
(1)
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Old haunts
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A short-lived party
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Trombone reminisce
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Gospel Friday
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Synth-free Ivoire
(15)
July 2005
(2)
01:
Rain dance
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Coming soon
(16)
June 2005
(9)
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Mali Love and a Blind Bonus
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Friday Night Hustle
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Rock Out
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Ticket love
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Steamy poker
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“I am a griotte and I will not follow a cowardly man”
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Roots pre-revival
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Tuscan sun, Sudanese tattoos
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Smiling Osei
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(9)
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Dakar Paris
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Mbalax unplugged
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Thirty Years & Counting
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Nubia, and the French Open
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Afrobeat in a hurry
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More Seck, more portly mamas
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Afro-Allman
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More Club for the w-e
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The Township Sound
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April 2005
(14)
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The trouble with sisters
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The Saratoga Sound
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Re-post requests
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Modern mbira
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419 state of mind
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Were Transformed
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Just get over the cheese
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I left my mbalax at the office
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The Sound of Senegal
(17)
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Chamber Shona
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This one’s for the xale yi
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History lesson
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(10)
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Anti-establishment flow
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100 done, 100 more
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Unknown Nigeria
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Lazy Sunday Request
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africanhiphop.com
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Touba trip
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Percussive random wonderful
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Lady Soukous
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Home Sweet Sahel
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Revue Noire
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February 2005
(12)
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Bend those keys
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Echo and culture
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Afro-jazz for dead kings
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Hypnotic Xhosa
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Straight outta Essaouira
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Upgrade
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Reconstructed Kora
(1)
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Da Hop
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Malagasy polyphony
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Belle Bella Bella
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I will never play like this
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Cotton Candy Congo
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January 2005
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Out of Africa
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The Kenya Now
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No thanks, Father
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Sorcerer Guitar
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Franco deux
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And a Franco three
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Cuba, Congo, Kékélé
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De retour
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West of Fela
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December 2004
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Are you a woman or an animal?
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Don’t you know it’s gonna last?
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Raw, uncut Keita
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Pan-African Griot
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The Zairean Upsetter
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Apolitical Sudan
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Sunugal
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Hip Hop Galsene
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Rocamambu Rhythms
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The Baroque Motherland
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Burundi
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Africa elsewhere
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Rock, not War
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Musique est un drogue, I am a dealer
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Music for layovers
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Highbeat
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November 2004
(20)
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Accelerating the kora
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Strumming in the south
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Freedom for some
(4)
03:
Marimba acrobatics
(3)
04:
Rap ci sama gox bi
(8)
05:
JB glace & a sweaty salsa
(3)
06:
Pulp Fulani
(4)
08:
Tuku Light
(2)
09:
For love and money
(7)
10:
Soul Train RSA
(3)
11:
Popular demand
(3)
12:
The Jamaican Sahel
(1)
15:
Mystery Stephen
(0)
16:
King of Fuji
(30)
17:
East-coast diva
(1)
18:
Dancing in the DRC
(3)
19:
Cross continental
(5)
20:
Share the beat
(4)
22:
Big-band Broadway
(7)
23:
Rumba before the war
(9)
October 2004
(34)
01:
He Who Carries Death In His Pouch
(3)
02:
Blind love, big blues
(5)
03:
Griot guitar
(4)
04:
Not a griot
(0)
04:
From Vancouver to LA, via Dakar
(1)
05:
Moussoulou Wassoulou
(4)
06:
Return to the throne
(5)
07:
In the mouth of the crocodile
(2)
08:
Not so smooth
(0)
08:
21 string salute
(7)
09:
See the sabar, shake that ass
(4)
10:
Senegambia Rap
(8)
11:
Dreads and a soft mbalax
(9)
12:
Never leave home without it
(6)
13:
Shona Struggle
(4)
14:
Tropics and snow
(9)
15:
South African lady guitar
(4)
15:
A call for requests
(11)
16:
Wah Wah Independence
(1)
17:
Trance for “loose women”
(3)
18:
Langa Langa what?
(5)
19:
No struggle here
(3)
20:
Before the highlife
(4)
21:
Election Soundtrack
(5)
22:
Rogie fulfilled
(5)
22:
A plan of action
(7)
24:
The sound of exile
(1)
25:
The Soukous bandwagon
(4)
26:
More rock from out West
(2)
27:
And now we funk East
(4)
28:
50 CFA
(2)
29:
Sweaty diamond dance music
(2)
30:
A friendly transition
(1)
31:
Baby Mandingo
(5)
September 2004
(6)
25:
Pop Nigeria
(5)
26:
Funky Lagos
(4)
27:
The Minister of Enjoyment
(2)
28:
The Doctor of Hypertension
(1)
29:
The Other Chief Commander
(5)
30:
Living the highlife
(2)