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CONTENTS
Map of Africa x
Introduction xiii
The Sweet Smells of Independence
… And Lumumba Was Dancing the Cha-Cha-Cha
Joseph Kabasele and the Rise of the Congolese Crucible 3
E. T. Mensah: The King of Highlife
The Influence of Colonization on Music 11
Miriam Makeba: The “Click-Click Girl”
South African Music Between Silence and Exile 19
Bembeya Jazz and the Syliphone Elephant
The Era of National Pride in Guinea 27
Francis Bebey – Pierre Akendengue: The Metropolitans
The Children of Négritude 35
Rakoto Frah: The Wizard Merlin of the Sodina
The Malagasy Musical Entity 43
The Salt of the Earth
Thomas Mapfumo and the Ancestors’ Mbira in Zimbabwe
National Liberation Music in Southern Africa 51
Franco: “You Go in OK, You Come Out KO”
The Second Wave of the Congolese Sound 59
Fela Kuti: “The Man Who Carried Death in His Pouch”
The Quest for the Nigerian Afrobeat 67
Mahlathini, “King of the Groaners” and Johnny Clegg, “The White Zulu”
The Soweto Stewpot on the Hot Coals of Apartheid 77
Roots
Granmoun Lélé and Danyel Waro: The Pulse of Réunionese Maloya
The Memory of the Maroons and the Return of Identity 87
Doudou N’Diaye Rose: The Messiaen of the Dakar Medina
Africa and the Return to Rhythm 93
The “Strange Niger Blue” of Mali’s Ali Farka Toure
The Roots of the Blues 99
Bi Kidude: “The Little Thing” Soul of the Zanzibar Taarab
East Africa Between Bantu and Arab Colors 105
Crisis of the Signs
Toure Kunda and the “Dance of the Leaves”
African Immigration and the Vogue for Black Music 113
Salif Keita: The Treason of the Albino
The Contradictions of the Modern Griot 121
M’Pongo Love: The Feminist Who “Tickles” Men
African Diversity’s Unspoken Matter 131
Zao: “Mr. Corpse”
The Spices of Humorous Music 139
Alpha Blondy: “I Am a Rastafoulosophe, You Know!”
The Rooting of Reggae in Africa 147
Mamadou Konte’s Little Hat
The Activists of Black Showbiz 157
The Eskista of Mahmoud Ahmed
The Case of Ethio-Jazz 163
World Sound
Mory Kante: The Electric Griot
The Mutations of the Instrument 173
Papa Wemba: The Elegant Rumba
The Third Congolese Wave 179
Geoffrey Oryema, or the Sorrow of the Great Lakes
What Music After Rwanda? 185
From Kodé di Dona to Cesaria Evora: Sodade in A Major
The Music of Cape Verde 191
Anne-Marie Nzie: “The Golden Voice of Cameroon”
When “Country” Music Is Invited into World Music 199
Leaving the Twentieth Century
Manu “Papa Groove” Dibango: The Pastor and His Flock
From Sidney Bechet to Techno 209
Abidjan – Dakar – Johannesburg: What’s All This Gnama-Gnama?
Rap, Zouglou, Kwaito: The New Generation 217
The Youssou N’Dour Connection
The Prototype of the African Artist of the Future? 227
Ray Lema or the Great World Band
When Music Is Humanism 235
Afterword
The Duty of Memory 241
Appendixes
Musical Areas: Africa in Ethnomusicolor 249
Musical Genres and Styles 259
Glossary of Instruments 267
Selected Discography 277
Selected Bibliography 289
Acknowledgments 295
Index 297