Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou es una monja que vive actualmente en Jerusalén. Ella creció como hija de un prominente intelectual de Etiopía, pero pasó gran parte de su joven vida en el exilio, en primer lugar para la escuela, y luego otra vez durante la ocupación de Mussolini de la ciudad capital de Etiopía, Addis Abeba, en 1936.

Is a Guinean jazz group that gained fame in the 1960s for their infectious Afropop rhythms. They are considered one of the most significant bands in Guinean music. Many of their recordings are based on traditional folk music in the country and have been fused with jazz and Afropop style. Featuring guitarist Sekou 'Diamond Fingers' Diabate, who grew up in a traditional griot musical family, the band won over fans in Conakry, Guinea's capital city, during the heady days of that country's newfound independence.

Fela Anikulapo Kuti fue un multiinstrumentista y cantautor nigeriano, activista de los derechos humanos. Creó el género afrobeat. Su hijo es el también cantante de afrobeat Femi Kuti.

The Best of Femi Kuti serves as a fine introduction to the Nigerian Afro-beat composer and bandleader, and the oldest son of the genre's founder, Fela Kuti. It's compiled from his two Barclay recordings, Shoki Shoki (1998) and Fight to Win (2001), and contains about half of each album. His Tabu/Motown album Wonder Wonder is inexplicably shut out despite some excellent tracks — and the fact that Universal owns both labels! The latter half of the disc contains collaborations with Mos Def ("Do Your Best"), Common ("Missing Link"), and Jaguar Wright ("Fight to Win").

Mikidache Mayotte nacido en Mayotte en 1969. A los 13 años comenzó a componer. Completamente autodidacta, sus canciones en las Comoras, Madagascar, Francés e Inglés inspiradas en el folclore Madagascar.

Soul Science is a slow-burning album that reveals its many surprises and innovations gradually. It is a collaboration between Justin Adams — the guitarist in Strange Sensation, Robert Plant’s backing band — and Juldeh Camara — a griot from Gambia who plays a rifti (a one-string fiddle). Its 11 songs provide some of the tastiest gut-bucket blues this side of Muddy Waters’ early material. The music is, at once, reassuringly familiar and utterly exotic and strange.