Links

Helpful Web Links

• Afribeat - Cape Town, South Africa
• Africa Centre - non-profit in London, UK
• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
• African HipHop
• African National Congress
• African Music Archive is brought to you by the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.
• African Music HomePage
• Afro-Carib Artists Index.
• Afrodicia is a radio program hosted by DJ Naamdi and broadcast weekly from KPFA in Los Angeles
• AfroFest
• AfricMusic
• Afromix
  
• AfroPulse African Music Concert Guide for Los Angeles
  
• Amampondo - one of South Africa's longest established Xhosa music & dance groups
• Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
• BBC World Service: Rhythms of the Continent
  
• Francis Bebey index
  
• CD Now has a small African selection available.
• Candombe - Afro-Uruguayan music
• Chains is a www manifestation of a series of performances in Ghana in 1994.
• Cora Connection - David Gilden's excellent Cora Connection features Manding music traditions of West Africa
  
• Dagara Bewaa - music and dance of Ghana with Bernard Woma
  
• Dandemutande caters to Shona music lovers.
• Dar Gnawa
  
• Denad Foundation - soukous music
• Digitale Tam Tam has some excellent links
• Djogbe
  
• Fula Flute
• Ghanaian Cultural Life
  
• Hamsa Lila
  
• In Griot Time An American Guitarist in Mali - Banning Eyre
  
• International Library of African Music - founded by the late Hugh Tracey
  
• The Kamusi Project is the Internet Living Swahili Dictionary.
• JAKA Marimba Band
  
• Jololi - The Rhythms of Senegal
• Kengmo - musician, healer, storyteller from Cameroon
• Kotoja - Modern Afro-Beat
  
• Kusum Gboo - Pan African Dance company based in Accra, Ghana
  
• C. K. Ladzekpo - Ghanaian Music and Dance
  
• Leopardman's African Music Guide
  
• Makina Loca featuring Ricardo Lemvo
  
• The Mbira HomePage is a wonderful site full of everything you've ever wanted to know about Shona music.
• Mbira Vibes
• Nomad Net focuses on Somalia.
• OrishaNet covers the world of La Regla Lucumí, Santería, and Ifá
• Panjea - World Grooves from this Chris Berry-led band
  
• Reggae Interviews
• RootsWorld
• Sankofa is the name of a radio show that airs Sundays 6:00pm-8:30pm, on W O S P Osprey Radio (University of North Florida's one and only radio station) and also webcasts over the internet
• Sudani Project
  
• Sunduza Dance Theatre
  
• Technobeat Archives from Bob Tarte
• Village Pulse produces digital field recordings of West African percussion
• Voices Of Africa Choral Ensemble
  
• Wagogo
  
• West African Dance with Youssef Koumbassa
  
• West African Music
• World Music Central
• World Music Home Page
• Zouk Archive

Listserves/Email Lists

• The African Music Digest
• The African Beat Digest
• The Djembe List
• Dandemutande

Periodicals

• AfricanOnline
• Africa-Iwalewa`s World Music Magazine
• African Music Magazine
• Afrique Horizon
• The Beat Magazine
• Dandemutande is a magazine catering to Shona music lovers
• Djembe Magazine
• eSoundz Reporter
• Ethnomusicology Magazine
• Folk Roots Magazine
• Global Rhythm Magazine
• Latin Beat Magazine
• Mondo Melodia - label focusing on North African and Middle East musicians
• The Music Magazine
• Roots World
• Songlines World Music Magazine

  Independent Lables/Recordings

• Humansongs
• Onzou Records
• Putumayo World Music
• Tinder Records
• Weltwunder

Newsgroups

• alt.music.african
• alt.music.world
• rec.music.afro-latin
• rec.music.brazilian
• rec.music.makers.percussion
• soc.culture.african
• soc.culture.guinea-conakry
• soc.culture.south-africa

  Festivals

• African MarketPlace & Vultural Faire - annual end-of summer festival in Los Angeles, California, United States
• African Village Weekend -
• Bumbershoot Festival - annual Labor Day weekend Seattle Music Festival featuring some African bands & Facilitated Drumcircles
• California WorldFest - annual summer fesitval in Grass Valley, California, featuring some African bands
• Celebration Above the Clouds - A World Music fundraiser to benefit 9/11
• Cultural Affairs Festival - Los Angeles
• FESAAM - Festival of African & African-American Music, Louisianna, United States
• World Festival of Sacred Music - Los Angeles
• Firedance - Annual magical celebration of drum & dance in the Snata Cruz Mountains, California
• Global Alliance
• International African Arts Festival - annual summer celebration in Brooklyn, New York
• Kora - All Africa Music Awards
• Larmertree Festival
• Muhtadi -Annual Drum Fest in Toronto, Canada
• One Root Festival - annual festival near Sacramento, California
• Pan African Film & Arts Festival - annual exhibition of film, art and creative expression in Los Angeles, California
• Seattle World Rhythm Festival - annual spring festival in Seattle
• Whitby Musicport - annual fest in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
• World Sacred Music Festival - in Northwest  Africa
• WOMAD Festivals
• WOMEX - World Music Expo
• Womongathering
• Zimbabwean Music Festival - annual festival focusing on music from Zimbabwe usually held in the summer in the Pacific Northwest of the uited States

  Stores

• Africa Alive
• Africa Treasures
• African Goatskins
• Bang A Drum
• Drumskull Drums
• Earthshaking Music
• International Art & Sound
• Jam Town
• Lark In the Morning
• Motherland Music
• Noisy Toys
• Primal Beat Percussion