Amagoduka – Zim Ngqawana
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zim-ngqawana-amagoduka-migrant-workers/
The song Amagoduka, by Zim Ngqawana, tells the tale of migrant workers who’ve historically had to leave their homes in the hinterlands for big cities in search of a better day.
Zim Ngqawana (1959-2011)
South African flautist and saxophonist, composer and teacher, Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’ (and later as ‘Zimology’) […]
AMF is participating to Blaugust this year, for the first time.
The original challenge is to publish at least a new post every day during the month of August.
Challenge accepted!
Are you ready?
More info: https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2025/07/10/blaugust-2025-is-coming/ or @Blaugust
Pops Mohamed – Election Day Serenade
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pops-mohamed-election-day-serenade/
Pops Mohamed had started his musical journey at Dorkay House, where he studied guitar and was able to hear the rehearsals of jazz legends such as saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. Later, it became one of his meeting and rehearsal spaces. “Me being from the East Rand,” he says, […]
#90smusic #Jazz #SoulJazz #SouthAfrica #Blaugust #Blaugust2025
Mahmoud Ahmed & Badume’s Band – Mela Mela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mahmoud-ahmed-badume-band-mela-mela/
Mahmoud Ahmed, the Ethiopian crooner… Live @ Fiest’A Sète 2008.
Mahmoud Ahmed (Amharic: ማሕሙድ አሕመድ; born 8 May 1941) is an Ethiopian singer. He gained great popularity in Ethiopia in the 1970s and among the Ethiopian diaspora in the 1980s, before rising to international fame with African music fans in Europe and the Americas. […]
Ousmane Kouyaté
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ousmane-kouyate/
A 2-track Limited Dance Edition available on vinyl (and digital) with two funk-infused Mandingue gems from the early 1980s by Ousmane Kouyaté. Here’s also a track from his album “Révélation” in 1982. Ousmane Kouyaté was an innovator of the Mandingue sound, whose career – as a member of Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux, and as guitarist for […]
Black Disco – Night Express
https://amf.didiermary.fr/black-disco-night-express/
2 album with Pops Mohamed (Organ – Electric Piano), Basil Coetzee (Flute, Tenor Sax), and Sipho Gumede (Bass), in two different styles with Black Disco and Movement in the City.
As the 1970s were drawing to a close, the epic Black Disco studio project with its signature pairing of drum machine and organ had run […]
Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/orchestre-super-borgou-parakou-bariba-sound/
Super Borgou de Parakou was a band created by Moussa Mama and guitarist Menou Roch. This group, influenced by Afrobeat and Funk in the 1970s, also drew inspiration from Beninese folk music such as Bariba and Dendi.
The Bariba Sound 1970-76
Originating from the Kwara state of northwest Nigeria, the Bariba – a predominantly Islamic […]
Teddy Khuluzwa, better known as Dr Footswitch, was one of the icons of rock in both Zimbabwe and Zambia through the 1970s.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dr-footswitch/
After a carreer in Zimbabwe, known as Southern Rhodesia at the time, Teddy Khuluzwa moved to Zambia.
In the ’60s and early ’70s, Khuluzwa played guitar alongside future Zamrock stars such as Rikki Ililonga, […]
#70smusic #FullAlbum #Rock #Zambia #Zamrock #Zimbabwe #Blaugust #Blaugust2025
