May 23, 2013
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Konono No. 1
Handmade electronics
by James M. Manheim
posted 11/1/2005
The African musicians who have become well known in the West are mostly those working modern popular traditions: Miriam Makeba and all who followed her in South Africa, the kinetic juju bands of Nigeria, Angelique Kidjo from Benin, the Swahili rumba bands of Nairobi, the soukous (from the French secouer, "to shake") ensembles of Kinshasa (Congo), and
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