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General

• Adam coly / 4 Etoiles. CD 06919
• Africa / Miriam Makeba. CD 10597
• Africa east and west. LAfro-Cuba : a musical anthology. CD 01919
• Africa - praise I. M2143 .A37 1996 disc
• Azucar / Juan Formell and Los Van Van. CD 05806P 363
• Africa worldwide :35th anniversary album /Tabu Ley Rochereau et L'Orchestra Afrisa International. CD 05879
• African music / recording in Africa by Laura Boulton. LP 1797
• The African Music Society's choice - Osborn Award, part II. LP 13374
• The African roots of jazz / by Fredrick Kaufman and John P. Guckin. LP 5919
• Animals of Africa : sounds of the jungle, plain & bush. CD 10381
• Afrika Moyo : African heartbeat. CD 06921
• An anthology of African music. LP 570 v.2
• Black ivory soul / Angelique Kidjo. CD 09943
• Desert blues: ambiances du Sahara. CD 06582 OVERSIZE
• Feet on fire / Samba Mapangala and Virunga. CD 06927
• "Folon"...the past / Salif Keita. CD 05829
• Franco et Le Tout Puissant O.K. Jazz. CD 06934
• Gyedu-Blay Ambolley : the warrior of Afrikan music. CD 06929
• Liberation afro beat. vol. 1 / Antibalas' Afrobeat Orchestra. CD 10309
• Maria Tebbo / Sam Mangwana. CD 06933
• Mbuti pygmies of the Ituri rainforest / recorded by Colin Turnbull and Francis S. Chapman. CD 06437
• Missa luba. CD 03182
• Music from the roadside, no. 1. LP 14488
• Music of Mali. LP 8400
• Musical instruments 1 : Strings / [recorded] by Hugh Tracey. LP 14480
• Musical instruments 2 : Reeds (Mbira) / [recorded] by Hugh Tracey. LP 14479
• Musical instruments 3 : Drums / [recorded] by Hugh Tracey. LP 14478
• Musiques du pays Lobi. LP 3749
• Osborn awards 1958. LP 14471
• Putumayo Presents: An Afro-Portugese Odyssey. CD 10750
• Reggae Africa. CD 10944
• Safarini : music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
• Sangonini / 4 Etoiles. CD 05683
• Songs of the Watutsi. LP 15196
• Soukous in Central Park / Kanda Bongo Man. CD 05814
• Spirit of African Sanctus. CD 03601
• Stand / Bu-Baca Diop. CD 06939
• Tanganyika I. LP 14482
• The Toure Kunda collection. CD 9197
• The very best of Manu Dibango : Afrosouljazz. CD 10592

Central Africa

• Anthologie de la musique des Pygmees Aka (Empire Centrafricain). LP 3731
• Central African Republic . CD 05453
• Echoes of the forest : music of the Central African Pygmies. CD 05507 [MBUTI PEOPLE]
• Music of Equatorial Africa. LP 1896
• Musique centrafricaine. LP 3751
• On the edge of the Ituri forest : northeastern Belgian Cong, 1952. CD 08191
• Primitive Music of Africa / recorded on location by the Denis-Roosevelt Expedition. LP 8403 [MBUTI PEOPLE]
• Pygmées Aka : Centrafique. CD 07485
• Rondes et jeux chantés banda-linda (centrafrique). LP 4445 [BANDA PEOPLE]

Eastern Africa

• East Africa : ceremonial& folk music. CD 10376
• East Africa [sound recording] : witchcraft & ritual music. CD 10375
• Escalay : the water wheel; oud music from Nubia. LP 5401

North Africa

• Absolute Rai. CD 10555
• Berbères di Maroc : ahwach. / Lortat-Jacob, Bernard. LP 4438
• Essence Ordinaire / Zebda. CD 10711
• Music of Islam. CD 10821 v.1, 3-15
• N'ssi n'ssi / Khaled Hadj Brahim. CD 05698
• Rai : music rough guide. CD 10570

West Africa

• Africa: drum, chant & instrumental music. LP 5380
• African rhythms and instruments. Vol. 1. CD 06880.
• Dance suites from West Africa. CalArts African Ensemble. LP 12219
• Gabon: musique des Pygmées Bibayak. LP 3739 [BAKA PEOPLE]
• Gabon: musique des Pygmées Bibayak : chantres de l'apopee. CD 00139 [BAKA PEOPLE]
• Jali Kunda : Griots of West Africa & beyond. CD 06993
• Mandinka kora, Gambie. LP 3746 [MANDINGO PEOPLE]
• Music and dances of Occidental Africa. LP 11965
• Musiques du monde : les instruments traditionnels / réalisation, G. Dournon et J. Schwarz. LP. 4437
• Musiques du pays Lobi. LP 3749
• Primitive music of the world.[1962] / Henry Cowell. LP 3327
• Roots of Black music in America. LP 819
• Savannah rythms : music of Upper Volta. LP 5089
• Songs of the griots. II / Sunjui Cissoko and Marhawa Kouyate. CD 05560 [MANDINGO PEOPLE]
• Sounds of West Africa : the kora and the xylophone. CD 05781
• Watto sitta / [performed by] Mandingo. CD 10581
• West Africa : drum, chant & instrumental music. CD 10374

Afrikaans

• Missa luba : an African mass, 10 Kenyan folk melodies. CD 03182

Africa: Alphabetical by Country

Algeria

• Best of the Early Years / Khaled. CD 10794
• Kenza / Khaled. CD 10573
• Meli meli / Cheb Mami. CD 10575
• Moroccan & Algerian Rai : the gold collection. CD 10572
• Music of Islam, 1 [-3]. LP 6961 v.1 Sahara. LP 4443 v.3
• Pop Rai and Rachid style. CD 10464

Angola

• Adventures in Afropea 3 : Afro-Portugal telling stories to the sea. CD 05926

Benin

• Yoruba drums from Benin, West Africa. CD 05679

Burkina Faso

• Burkina Faso : rhythms of the grasslands. CD 10370
• Burkina Faso : Savannah rhythms. CD 10371
• Bolomakote / Farafina. CD 10598

Burundi

• Burundi; music from the heart of Africa. LP 5419
• Burundi : music from the heart of Africa. CD 10377
• Burundi: musiques traditionnelles. L P 3736

Cameroon

• Afrijazzy / Manu Dibango. CD 10834
• Bikutsi rock / Les Tetes Brulees. CD 05756
• Danses et chants Bamoun. LP 15203
• Heart of the forest : Baka forest people of southeast Cameroon. CD 05694
• Music of the Cameroons. LP 3323
• Music of the Cameroons. : the Fulani of the North / recorded by Veit Erlmann. LP 15192
• Musiques du Cameroun. LP 3744
• Spirit of the forest: Baka beyond / [Martin Cradick]. CD 06511

Canary Islands

• "Guanche"/ los Sabandeños. LP 3769

Cape Verde

• Cap-Vert : un archipel de musiques. CD 08183 OVERSIZE
• Cesaria Evora / Cesaria Evora. CD 05818
• Adventures in Afropea : Afro-Portugal telling stories to the sea. CD 05926
• Le violon deu Cap Vert / Antoninho Travadinha. CD 05769

Central African Republic

• Anthologie de la musique des Pygmees Aka (Empire Centrafricain). LP 3731
• Banda polyphony. CD 05775
• Central African Republic : music of the Dendi, Nzakara, Banda Linda, Gbaya, Banda-dakpa, Ngbaka, Aka Pygmies =Republique centraficaine. CD 05453
• Empire Centrafricain : Musique Gbaya : Chants à penser . LP 3732
• Pygmées. LP 4443 v.2

Chad

• One Step Forward / Les Nubians. CD 10663

Congo

• African concert. LP 2040
• Music of the rainforest pygmies. CD 10601
• Sam Mangwana sings Dino Vangu. CD 09934

Egypt

• Oum Kalthoum = El sett = (La dame = The lady). CD 10571

Ethiopia

• Ethiopia : the harp of Apollo : songs accompanied by the kirar. CD 05612
• Musiques ethiopiennes. LP 3752

Gabon

• Gabon : musique des Pygmées Bibayak. LP 3739
• Gabon: chantres du quotidien. LP 3733
• Musiques des Mitsogho et des Batéké. LP 4080

Gambia

• Kora Manding : Mandinka music of the Gambia. LP 18278
• Tabara / Amadu Bansang Jobarteh. CD 05825
• Senegal & Gambia. CD 10568
• Traditional kora music from Gambia / Papa Susso. CD 10441
• Watto sitta / [performed by] Mandingo. CD 10581

Ghana

• Africa east and west. LP 363
• Drum gahu : good-time drumming from the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo. CD 05777
• Folk music of Ghana. LP 8401
• Ghana : ancient ceremonies : dance music & songs. CD 10372
• Ghana : voices of Africa : high-life, popular music / Saka Acquaye and his African ensemble. CD 10380
• Let me play my drums / Obo Addy & Kukrudu. CD 06399
• Let your voice be heard! : songs from Ghana and Zimbabwe. M 1830 .L47 1986 cass.
• Master fiddlers of Dagbon. CD 9372
• Mustapha Tettey Addy : master drummer from Ghana / Mustapha Tettey Addy. CD 05456
• Okropong: traditional music of Ghana / Obo Addy. CD 06442
• Rhythms of life, songs of wisdom : Akan music from Ghana, West Africa. CD 05783
• The rhythm of which a chief walks gracefully / Obo Addy. CD 06400
• Safarini : the music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
• Xylophone music from Ghana. CD 04906

Guinea

• Ballet africains / Papa Ladji Camara. CD 05788
• Bembeya Jazz National. CD 06924
• Diamond fingers / Sekou Bembeya Diabate. CD 06925
• Girls of Guinea / Sona Diabate. CD 05782
• Music and dances of Occidental Africa. LP 11965
• Recits et epopees. CD 05833

Ivory Coast

• Adama Drame : djembe drum / Adama Drame. CD 05838
• The Best of Alpha Blondy. CD 10937
• Black System / Ismael Isaac. CD 10938
• Cape of Good Dope. CD 10852
• Cocody Rock!!! / Alpha Blondy. CD 10829
• Jerusalem / Alpha Blondy. CD 10939
• Ivoire Parade / Hamed Farras. CD 10853
• Le proces / Zo Gang International. CD 10849
• Le roi de Ziglibithy / Ernesto Djedje. CD 10826
• Music and dances of Occidental Africa. LP 11965
• Musique Baoulé-Kodè. LP 3743 [BAOULE PEOPLE]
• Musique gouro de Cote d'Ivoire. LP 3750
• Masques dan. LP 3748
• Zouglou Feeling. CD 10851

Kenya

• Africa: ceremonial & folk music. LP 5376
• Africa: Witchcraft & ritual music. LP 5349
• Safarini : the music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
• Spirit of African Sanctus. CD 03601

Madagascar

• The long way home / Dama & D'Gary. CD 06942
• Madagascar : awakening the spirits : music in tromba and bilo trance rituals. CD 06272
• Tibet, Cambodia, Madagascar, Laos, Bali 1-2, Tahiti. LP 16085

Mali

• Africa: drum, chant & instrumental music. LP 5380
• Baro / Habib Koitâe & Bamada. CD 10425
• Duga / Lobi Traore. CD 10582
• Djelika / Toumani Diabate, Keletigui Diabate, and Basekou Kouyate. CD 05831
• Les Dogon : musique des masques et des funerailles. CD 8099
• Kar kar / Boubacar Traore. CD 10583
• Mali lolo! / Stars of Mali. CD 10831
• Ma ya / Habib Koitâe & Bamada.CD 10426
• Mississippi to Mali / Corey Harris. CD 10860.
• Moffou / Salíf Keita. CD 10528
• Moussolou / Omare Sangare. CD 10827
• Niafunkâe / Ali Farka Toure. CD 10590
• The river [sound recording] / Ali Farka Toure. CD 10560
• Moussolou / Oumou Sangare. CD 10827
• Soro / Salif Keita. CD 10530
• The source / Ali Farka Toure. CD 05765
• Talking Timbuktu . CD 05052
• Wass Reggae / Askia Modibo. CD 10943
• The Wassoulou Sound: Women of Mali. CD 10843
• Worotan / Oumou Sangare. CD 10830

Mauritania

• Musique traditionnelle des Griots Maures (Mauritanie). LP 4433

Morocco

• La daqqa : tambours sacres de marrakech = sacred drums from Marrakesh. CD 8075
• Moroccan & Algerian Rai : the gold collection. CD 10572
• Moroccan Sufi music : Islamic mystical brotherhoods. LP 16101
• Morocco: crossroads of time. CD 05815
• The music of Islam. CD 8112
• Music of Morocco. LP 8467
• Sacred music of the Moroccan Jews. CD 08346
• Sahara. LP 4443 v.3
• Trance 2 : Naqshbandi Sufis, healing and trance in Morocco, Balines trance ritual. CD06200

Mozambique

• Marrabenta Mozambique. CD 10195

Nigeria

• Army arrangement / Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt '80. CD 06879
• Atide / JJC & 419 Squad. CD 10820
• Beasts of no nation / Fela. CD 05096
• The best best of Fela Kuta / Fela Kuta. CD 8178
• Black man's cry / Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. CD 05461
• Coffin for the head of state/Unknown soldier / Fela. CD 8172
• Confusion/ Gentlemen / Fela Ransome Kuti & the Afrika 70. CD 8176
• E dide = get up / King Sunny Ade. CD 05837
• Expensive shit/He miss road / Fela Ransome-Kuti & the Africa 70. CD 8171
• Homecooking / Tony Allen. CD 10832
• Juju master / I.K. Dairo. CD 5823
• Juju roots : 1930s-1950s CD 6422
• Music is the weapon of the future / Fela Anikulapo Kuti. CD 0169
• Music is the weapon of the future vol. 2 / Fela. CD 08170
• Music of many colours / Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Roy Ayers. CD 06363
• Musiques du Nigeria central. LP 3740
• Musiques du plateau, Nigéria. / Enregistrements réalisés par Benoit Quersin. LP 3741
• Red hot + riot / Fela. CD 10590
• ODOO / Fela Anikulapo Kuti. CD 05095
• Opposite people/Sorrow tears and blood / Fela and Afrika 70. CD 08175
• Original sufferhead / Fela. CD 05094
• Shakara/London scene / Fela Kuti. CD 8180
• Shuffering and shmiling : No agreement / Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Afrika 70. CD 08177
• Sound time / Osita Osadebe and his Nigerian soundmakers. CD 9669
• Stalemate : Fear not for man. Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the Afrika 70
• Underground system / Fela Anikulapo Kuti. CD 05721
• Up side down / Fela Anikulapo Kuti & the Africa 70. CD 06232
• V.I.P./Authority stealing / Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Afrika 70. CD 8174
• Yellow fever/Na poi / Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Africa '70. CD 8179
• Yusef Lateef in Nigeria . LP 10445
• Zombie / Fela and Afrika 70. CD 06448

Rhodesia

• Africa: Shona mbira music. LP 2534 [MASHONA]
• Halimba & Halumbu songs, Northern Rhodesia, 1952 & 1957; Zambia, historical recordings. CD 08551
• Rhodesia. LP 436
• The soul of mbira [traditions of the Shona people of Rhodesia.] LP 5418 [MASHONA]
• Southern Rhodesia (1). LP 14481

Rwanda

• At the court of the Mwami, Ruanda, 1952. CD 08189
• Primitive Music of Africa. LP 8403

Senegal

• Baayo [sound recording] / Baaba Maal. CD 10557
• Gainde: music from the heart of Africa / Yande Codou Sene and Youssou N. Dour. CD 05826
• The guide / Wommat. CD 6433
• Joko / Youssou N'Dour. CD 09326
• Missing you [sound recording] = (mi yeewnii) / Baaba Maal. CD 10556
• Nomad soul [sound recording] / Baaba Maal. CD 10558
• Nothing's in Vain / Youssou N'Dour. CD 10756
• The music of the Diola-Fogny of the Casamance, Senegal. LP 8402
• Pirates choice / Orchestra Baobab. CD 10310
• The Rough Guide to Youssou N'Dour & Étoile de Dakar / Youssou N'Dour & Étoile de Dakar. CD 10666
• Sabar: the soul of Senegal / Jam Bugum, Omar Thiam, [musical director]. CD 06458
• Senegal & Gambia. CD 10568
• Set [sound recording] / Youssou N'Dour. CD 10559
• Songs of the griots. II. CD 05560 [MANDINGO]
• Specialist in All Styles / Orchestra Baobab. CD 10665
• Tabala Wolof: Sufi drumming of Senegal. CD 05822
• The Toure Kunda collection. CD 9197
• Village djembe drumming with Mamadou Sidibe. CD 08186

South Africa

• African litany / Juluka. CD 06415
• Back in town / Boyoyo Boys. CD 10602
• Bantu high life. LP 3016 [BANTU]
• Beasts of no nation. CD 05096
• The best of Johnny Clegg & Savuka : in my African dream. CD 05929
• Eyes on tomorrow / Miriam Makeba. CD 05012
• FOSATU worker choirs. LP 12010
• Gift of the tortoise : a musical journey through Southern Africa / Ladysmith Black Mambazo. CD 10595
• Homeland 2 : a collection of black South African music. CD 06021
• Inala / Ladysmith Black Mambazo. CD 10596
• A Johnny Clegg and Juluka collection. CD 9204
• Jump & jive / Soul Brothers. CD 06932
• Mbube roots :Zulu choral music from South Africa. CD 06016
• Rhythm of resistance : music of Black South Africa. CD 01789
• Sangoma. / Miriam Makeba. CD 05011
• Scatterlings / Juluka CD 06421
• Serious Reggae Business / Lucky Dube. CD 10936
• South African legends. CD 08210
• Township jive / Soul brothers. CD 09741
• Two worlds one heart / Ladysmith Black Mambazo. CD 06413
• Universal men / Juluka. CD 06420
• Vuyani / amampondo. CD 9188
• Welcome to the USA / Zulu Spear CD 06426
• Women of the world / Mahotella Queens. CD 10593
• Zulu jive: Zulu beats from South Africa. CD 05824

Sudan

• Escalay = The water wheel : oud music. CD 10379
• Spirit of African Sanctus. CD 03601

Tanganyika

• Tanganyika I. LP 14482

Tanzania

• Ayé. CD 05013
• Logozo. CD 05051
• Tanzania : music of the farmer composers of Sukumaland : we never sleep, we dream of farming. CD 06273

Togo

• Drum gahu : good-time drumming from the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo. CD 05777
• Musique kabiyè, Togo / enregistrements réalisés par Raymond Verdier. LP 3745 [KABRE]

Tunisia

• Music of Islam, 1 [-3]. LP 6961 v.1
• The music of Islam. CD 8112
• Sahara. LP 4443 v.3
• Tunisia. LP 258 v.1

Uganda

• Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda. CD 10713
• Royal court music from Uganda, 1950 & 1952. CD 08190
• Spirit of African Sanctus. CD 03601
• Uganda I. LP 14483

Zaire

• Africa worldwide: 35th anniversary album / Tabu Ley Rochereau et L'Orchestra
• Afrisa International. CD 05879
• Emotion / Papa Wemba. CD 05210
• Hello hello / Mose Fan Fan. CD 06931
• Musiques de l'ancien royaume Kuba. LP 3747 [KUBA]
• Northern congo I (Sudanic). LP 14485
• Northern Congo II (Bantu). LP 14484
• Papa Wemba. CD 07321
• Papa Wemba et Viva la Musica. CD 06928
• Primitive Music of Africa . LP 8403
• Safarini : the music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
• Sassa la graisse / Nouvelle Generation. CD 06938
• Viva la Musica & Papa Wemba. CD 06999
• Zaire : Polyphony of the deep rain forest : Music of the Ituri pygmies. CD 05832
• Zap mama. CD 05928

Zimbabwe

• Chaminuka / Dumisani Maraire. CD 05845
• Mbira : healing music of Zimbabwe. CD 8102
• Safarini : the music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
• Songs from the roadside no. 2. LP 14486
• Talking Mbira / Stella Chiweshe. CD 10828
• Unity / Black Umfolosi. CD 06558
• Vanhu vatema / Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited. CD 06519
• Zimbabwe : Shona mbira music. CD 10373
• Zimbabwe : the African mbira : music of the Shona people. CD 10378
• Zimbabwe : the souls of Mbira : traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. CD 07704