During the course of the past 50 years, guitar music from Africa has gifted the world a vast array of incredible records, musicians, songs and musical styles. TG gives you a definitive guide. Africa ...

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 group’s ever-evolving sound has brought the ensemble international acclaim for Moctar’s unique mix of his native land’s Tuareg guitar music, commonly referred to as “Desert Rock” in ...

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 ...

Over about a decade of touring in the West, Moctar, 40, has carved out a niche as a modern African guitar hero and one of the very few voices in the pop world calling attention to the struggles 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Tetrarch guitarist Diamond Rowe has just become the first African American woman in heavy music to have her own signature guitar. She’s just revealed a new collaboration with Jackson and is the ...

AJ will perform at the Carnival City Big Top Arena later this year, supported by South African singer and actor Brian Temba.