African music Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/african-music/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:24:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 African music Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/african-music/ 32 32 67616479 Beyond the Hits: How to Build Africa’s Sound as a Business https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/beyond-the-hits-how-to-build-africas-sound-as-a-business/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/beyond-the-hits-how-to-build-africas-sound-as-a-business/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:38:06 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573852 Why professionalisation, not just talent, will decide who profits from the continent’s music boom.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/beyond-the-hits-how-to-build-africas-sound-as-a-business/feed/ 0 573852 Africa’s Sound Is Global — But Where’s the Money? https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/africas-sound-is-global-but-wheres-the-money/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/africas-sound-is-global-but-wheres-the-money/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:59:48 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573846 How the world fell in love with African music, and why the continent still earns less than 1% of global revenues.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/africas-sound-is-global-but-wheres-the-money/feed/ 0 573846 Syndicated Loverboy – Oliver Mtukudzi in Kwekwe https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/syndicated-loverboy-oliver-mtukudzi-in-kwekwe/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/syndicated-loverboy-oliver-mtukudzi-in-kwekwe/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:32:48 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573608 Recent damning revelations about Zimbabwean superstar, Oliver Mtukudzi’s paternal negligence divided public opinion. This piece revisits the songs Tuku wrote in the heat of his family controversies and libertine adventures. What influence did Kwekwe have on his career over his decade there with his new family and an abused daughter from his first marriage?

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/syndicated-loverboy-oliver-mtukudzi-in-kwekwe/feed/ 0 573608 The Njerama Files – Interview with Paradzai Mesi (Part 2) https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-njerama-files-interview-with-paradzai-mesi-part-2/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-njerama-files-interview-with-paradzai-mesi-part-2/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 03 May 2023 09:31:09 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=572961 Paradzai Mesi is the lone wolf who howls for the pack just to keep it visibly out of play. Sungura guitarists were family prefects, lending their strings to the bonds of community and country. A sigma-type genius, Mesi redirected the sungura album away from its family tropes to the service of the disaffected and ill-adjusted individual.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-njerama-files-interview-with-paradzai-mesi-part-2/feed/ 0 572961 The Njerama Files – Interview with Paradzai Mesi (Part 1) https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-njerama-files-interview-with-paradzai-mesi-part-1/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-njerama-files-interview-with-paradzai-mesi-part-1/?noamp=mobile#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:26:14 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=572944 Paradzai Mesi holds his floor among the great Zimbabwean artists. Perennial underdog in a 2000s sungura school headlined by Alick Macheso and Tongai Moyo, his unique and individual songwriting has been clouded by unfavorable comparisons and bohemian controversies that follow his name to this day.

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