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African Music Forum (AMF) @[email protected] · 2026-08-26 · 19:05 UTC

70s & 80s Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba

https://amf.didiermary.fr/kenyan-benga-afro-cuban-rumba-70s-80s/

Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba playlist from the 3-LP set from Soundway Records’ release “Kenya Special – Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s and ’80s”. There’s also a second volume with tracks from the same period. [...]

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African Music Forum (AMF) @[email protected] · 2026-08-26 · 18:22 UTC

Nairobi Matata Jazz

https://amf.didiermary.fr/nairobi-matata-jazz/

The Kenyan genre known as benga (“beautiful thing” in the Luo language) developed in East Africa in the early 1970s as a rhythmic, incisive style, with roots in Cuban music and Congolese rumba. Unifying various characteristics of Kenya’s musical past, it quickly crystallized poetic traditions of the country’s disparate communities, with lyrics conveying [...]

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