As a style, makossa predated Dibango’s single. Born in Cameroon, it fused musical genres from the region and further afield. The liner notes of Pop Makossa explain “If makossa could be expressed as a ...

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Ten years ago, a group of friends calling themselves The Latin Soul Brothers got together at a small bar in Oakland to create an experience they named Makossa for aficionados of Latin and Afrobeat ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. DJ MAKossa. Photo by Abby Gillardi MAKossa More info djmakossa.com Chance are you have yet to come across the grooves of DJ ...

Douala will forever be associated with the rhythm of makossa, even if the music-crazed Cameroonian city now grooves to a different urban beat On a Saturday night at the Stade Omnisports in the Douala ...

Lagos — The Makossa fever that gripped Nigeria last year is far from over, pushing Nigeria's indigenous music to the background. Last year, Paris based techno-soukous star, Awilo Longomba, evidently ...

Manu Dibango, the acclaimed Cameroonian saxophonist whose 1972 hit, “Soul Makossa,” would later be sampled by Michael Jackson, Kanye West, and dozens of other musicians, died Tuesday due to ...

Cameroonian singer-songwriter Manu Dibango has died while suffering from Covid-19. He was 86 years old. Dibango’s death was announced on his Facebook page: “It is with deep sadness that we announce ...

Breaking down the musical history of the African diaspora. Popular music: Chaabi, kabil and chawia. Street music: Algerian hip hop and rai music. Artists: Intik and Double Kanon. Angola Popular music: ...