There is a deep love for music that runs through the Bongo family but it is their fascination with western pop music, and a willingness to use the immense resources of their oil-rich nation to bring ...

Gabonese music has become one of the most visible musical scenes in Central Africa over the last ten years, despite the dominance of Congolese and Cameroonian musical sounds. These pioneers have laid ...

N'Tcham takes inspiration from rap, afrobeat and traditional Central African music The popular genre from Gabon stems from a dance born in the prisons of the capital Libreville The Gabonese genre has ...

"The Integral language of Black Africa" by Leopold Sedar Senghor. Program notes, and texts (in Bantu with English translations) bound into each container. Recorded in: Fort Rousset (Congo (Brazzaville ...

In a bar in Gabon's capital Libreville, revellers get up and dance as soon as the DJ plays N'Tcham -- a local rhythmic genre born out of the city's prisons. Among young Gabonese, N'Tcham has dethroned ...

Recorded in: Fort Rousset (Congo (Brazzaville)), Bitam (Gabon), Divenie (Congo (Brazzaville)), Ouesso (Congo (Brazzaville)), Gandzicolo (Congo), Linnengue-Ongali ...