To celebrate October when the UK’s African film festivals usually happen and to mark Black History Month (though Rendez-vous à Bobo is here for Black history 365!) Rendez-Vous à Bobo salutes the great Ousmane Sembène, the polymath director known as ‘Le Vieux’, the father of African cinema, and one of the greats,...
Tag Archives: Manu Dibango
Since Rhythm Passport’s early days, Manu Dibango has constantly represented a music polestar to us. Back in 2014, we had the honour to interview him at Womad UK for what was one of our first features. Since then, he and his music have often enriched the pages of our website....
There’s a London music festival that, since the 1970s, constantly delights its audience, presenting jazz in every form and shape and appealing to every music lover, listener and simply culturally curious soul. We are talking about the renowned London Jazz Festival, which, in just a few weeks’ time, is going...
View Iñaki Martinez bio here A blend of African Afrobeat and Latin Funk tunes from Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and more. Track list: Intro / Fela Kuti – Lady (Iñaki M. Remix) 00:00 Renegades of Jazz – Comencemos (Jungle Fire Remix) 02:37 Aja Wondo – Uppers International (Iñaki M. Remix) 06:50 Banda Black Río –...