From work songs to now: how Africa has shaped global music
The old fashioned LP played on the old fashioned gramophone. BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Soumanou Salifou, Founder/Publisher, The African Magazine The song rises, faintly, from the distance, carried by the warm breeze that is caressing the cotton plants on a Mississippi plantation baking under the scorching August sun: “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen/Nobody knows my sorrow.”...
