Catch Benjamin Zephaniah and The Revolutionary Minds playing Hackney venue EartH on Wednesday 25th September as part of the seventeenth London African Music Festival! Dr Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is best known as a “dub poet”, but he’s worked across lots of genres, from poetry to music and from novels...
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At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...
Every September, Joyful Noise reacquaints us with an excellent musical celebration, featuring all-encompassing line-ups, and, of course we were looking forward to the 2017 edition of their London African Music Festival. Even so, we weren’t prepared for such a planned spectacle; 14 events scattered across 13 days and six London...
Known for being the man behind the beat in afrobeat, Tony Allen is considered the pioneer and professor of Nigerian drumming. The maestro of polyrhythms, he can sound like five different drummers playing in unison without even breaking a sweat, “after 45 minutes, I’m just warming up!” Allen drummed with...
You simply need to look at her, her eyes and expression to understand the nature of the experiences, adventures and encounters that Aziza Brahim has gone through in her life. The Sahrawi singer/songwriter, true mouthpiece of her people’s daily fight to be recognised, has spent her entire existence as a...
Dobet Gnahore moved to Marseille from Abijan (Ivory Coast most populous city) almost twenty years ago. The civil war forced her and her family to flee the Western Africa, but she brought her country with her and she proudly displays her roots in every gig she plays. Today, Dobet has deservedly...
The 14th London African Music Festival will return to the city from Friday 16th to Saturday 24th September 2016, hosting twelve acts over nine days in six renowned venues across the capital and including performances from Sekouba Bambino, Aziza Brahim and Dele Sosimi among many others. This year’s offering looks...
For the thirteenth year in a row, London becomes the northernmost African city. Twenty-six acts spread over ten days of “glorious music” and ten London vibrant venues will bring to life the 2015 edition of the London African Music Festival. The event, organized by Joyful Noise since 2003, has always...
Back in the early 1980s, he was arguably the first musician to introduce the British audience to Congolese music. After having displayed his talent all around Africa, he moved from Kinshasa to London and quickly became a sincere music ambassador of his country. Today, thirty years after his move and...
