By Ben Sisario For today’s Amplifier, your proprietor Lindsay Zoladz graciously lent me the keys for a little tour of Africa to celebrate some of the continent’s guitar greats. It was prompted ...

The guitar stands tall and proud, the neck is longer than usual, and the body of the instrument shaped like the African continent is a dark shade of brown. The African Electric Guitar (AEG), is ...

By Ben Sisario “Funeral for Justice,” the new album by the African musician Mdou Moctar, opens with a blast of angry, snarling guitar and an accusation raised like a fist against the rulers of ...

Seattle-based guitarist and bandleader Leif Totusek has been playing African guitar styles for some 40 years, notably in the U.K. in the 1980s with Somo Somo, a leading Congolese band fronted by ...

Mphakati, Music Ye Africa - International Rumba, Allen Kwela - Seven Days ago, Alvin Dyers - Wesley Street, Kampi Moto& George Phiri - Pamodzi, Gito Baloi - Hinkwafo, Blk Sonshine - Born in a Taxi.

Venturing further, he immersed himself in the rich guitar traditions of southern and West Africa, infusing the traditional mbira rhythms of the Shona people into his own vibrant and modern ...