Paris DJs – Summer 2013

https://amf.didiermary.fr/paris-djs-playlist-summer-2013/

Paris DJs is a Paris-based production team (Djouls, Grant Phabao, Loik Dury & Ben Hito) featuring worldwide guest vocalists, musicians, deejays, graphic/web designers and writers.Reggae, Afro, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Latin, Hip Hop and more audio goodness.

Playlist includes Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra and Muyiwa Kunnuji.

Mory Kanté - Yé ké yé ké TV live from the 80s (remastered VHS) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdeoNf62A6s

This has to be the happiest song I know.

Much higher prices for cocoa in countries that neighbor top producer Cote d'Ivoire create an arbitrage that some farmers and middlemen can't resist exploiting. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/17/markets/cocoa-prices-smuggling-traders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #cocoa #africa #ivorycoast #coted039ivoire #guinea #smuggling #chocolate

Kora Jazz Trio – Folly

https://amf.didiermary.fr/kora-jazz-trio-folly-mezzo/

Kora Jazz Trio was a three piece African musical group, founded in 2002 by Djeli Moussa Diawara, Guinean Korafola, with Abdoulaye Diabate (piano) and Moussa Sissokho (percussion), best known for producing a music that is a mix of American jazz with traditional African music. They released 3 studio albums […]

Maciré Sylla – Tiama

https://amf.didiermary.fr/macire-sylla-tiama/

Maciré Sylla is a Guinean singer-songwriter and dancer, born in Conakry in 1970. With five albums released to date, she won the “best Guinean female singer of year 1998” award with her first LP “Mariama” with 200.000 cassettes sold in Guinea.

The song “Tiama” comes from her album “Talitha” in 2010.

Nimbaya – The Women’s Drum & Dance Company of Guinea

https://amf.didiermary.fr/nimbaya-women-drum-dance-guinea/

A daring response to the taboo of women playing djembe in West Africa, NIMBAYA! is the first all women’s percussion and dance troupe from Guinea, sharing a new interpretation of traditional African drumming and dance.

“Choosing Nimbaya! was intended to be a tribute to women’s beauty, strength, fertility and integrity.” […]

Les Ballets Africains

https://amf.didiermary.fr/les-ballets-africains/

Old footage of Les Ballets Africains, the national dance company of Guinea.Founded in Paris in 1952 by Keita Fodeba, it’s composed of dancers and acrobats (athletes!) with a full accompanying traditional band (balafon, percussions, Kora…) and plenty of djembefolas. […]

Mah Damba – Jarabi

https://amf.didiermary.fr/mah-damba-jarabi-diva-mali/

“Jarabi”, sung by Mah Damba with Korafola Djeli Moussa Diawara, appears on the compilation “Divas from Mali,” released in 1997.

Just close your eyes… Listen to the Diva and the Griot…

Mah Damba: vocals
Djeli Moussa Diawara: kora, vocals
Lansiné Kouyaté: balafon

Djeli Moussa Diawara – Wouya Wouya

https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-wouya-wouya/

From his album “Yékéké (Paris 2010)“, Wouya Wouya is a 100% Manding solo track.

[Disclaimer: I was the producer of this album.]

Djeli Moussa Diawara – Ayo

https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-ayo/

“Ayo” is a single released by Djeli Moussa Diawara in 1991, from his album “Cimadan” (1992), that is also available on the “Tales Of The Kora” compilation (2003).

MvetKora – Sally Nyolo & Djeli Moussa Diawara

https://amf.didiermary.fr/mvetkora-sally-nyolo-djeli-moussa-diawara/

The album “Mvetkora” (2016) is an unexpected encounter between two traditional African instruments: the mvet played by the Cameroonian singer Sally Nyolo (ex-Zap Mama), and the electric kora plucked by the Guinean korafola Djeli Moussa Diawara.

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Iron ore is the lifeblood of Western Australia's economy, but the industry has a new competitor in the form of the Simandou mine in Guinea that holds one of the largest untapped high-grade deposits in the world.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/guineas-simandou-mine-formidible-competitor-wa-iron-ore-sector/105197588

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UN COUPLE PANAFRICAIN
Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael en Guinée
Elara Bertho

"En 1968, Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael quittent les États-Unis pour s’installer à Conakry, capitale de la Guinée socialiste. Réfugiés politiques en exil, la chanteuse sud-africaine mondialement connue et le militant révolutionnaire noir décident de se mettre au service du régime de Sékou Touré et de son ambitieux programme de décolonisation des esprits."

https://www.rot-bo-krik.com/un-couple-panafricain

Kwi Bamba & l’Orchestre de Gama Berema

https://amf.didiermary.fr/kwi-bamba-orchestre-gama-berema/

First international release for a raw and heavy Guinean Jazz session from “Maestro” Kwi Bamba, leader of the 60s State-funded orchestra Nimba Jazz, the precursor to Bembeya Jazz National.

The album was recorded in the forested region of Northern Guinea near the border with Ivory Coast and covers a variety of styles from Guinea, mainly from […]

Momo Wandel Soumah – Felenko Yéfé

https://amf.didiermary.fr/momo-wandel-soumah-felenko-yefe/

Momo Wandel Soumah (1926 – 2003), était un chanteur, compositeur et saxophoniste de Guinée, reconnaissable à sa voix rocailleuse caractéristique et son style de saxophone très personnel et inspiré.

Imaginez Louis Armstrong avec un saxophone en Guinée, Roi du Swing et de l’Improvisation.

“Le jazz est né chez vous, mais moi, je l’ai ramené chez […]

Mory Kanté – I Wouli Ka Don Ke (Upmix)

https://amf.didiermary.fr/mory-kante-i-wouli-ka-don-ke-upmix/