World music zine offers a list of the best albums from the region, including works by Hamza El-Din, Um Kalthum, and Gnawa Night Masters.

Provides African music resources. Offers reviews, articles, artist interviews, and links to record labels.

Archive offers reviews, interviews, and feature articles on a host of African musicians, organized by region.

Provides music from a variety of African countries. Search by artist, and listen to samples via RealAudio.

Find the profiles of musicians from across the continent, by name or country, and explore the bookstore. With related links.

Resource center features a discussion board for musicians, fans, and producers of contemporary African music. Find news articles, books, and CDs.

Provides a resource for new music and talent worldwide. Find listings of musical styles and of artists that this organization handles.

Click to a list of countries, then to the names of popular and traditional ensembles and musicians to explore their albums. Includes cover art and purchase details.

Afropop Worldwide presents this comprehensive site full of details about African African music. Contains discographies and radio highlights.

Describes this African music magazine. Provides reviews, featured CDs of the week, interviews, purchasing info, charts, and links.

Explore the role of music and musicians such as Thomas Mapfumo and Oliver Mtukudzi in the turbulence surrounding the 2000 elections in Zimbabwe.

General resource for music from Angola, Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Find a bibliography and an index of links.

Alphabetical directory of African musicians. Look up profiles of Najat Aatabou, Ghorwane, Miriam Makeba, Ry-CoJazz, or Zap Mama.

Presents a system for notating African music for rattles, talking drums, stamping tubes, xylophones, and water drums.

Journal of the African Music Archive at Mainz University offers a table of contents of its articles, editorials, reviews, and events schedules.

Provides a database of African music. Find photographs, sound samples, and a catalog, plus publications and videos for purchase.

Organization based in Berkeley, California, is dedicated to educating the public about, as well as preserving, the Shona music of Zimbabwe performed on the mbira.

Find music samples and artists from this west African nation. Offers juju, fuji, fulani, and Afro-beat music.

Overview of the instruments, dance, styles, and societal roles of the non-Arab sounds of the continent.

Muttu Mondiya Mama provides a critical appreciation of African music and musicians in the late 1990s, with a list of recommended performers.

Center for Black Music Research of Columbia College provides documentation, preservation, and dissemination of this music. With links.

Find details on jazz, hip-hop, and reggae musicians. Look up artists alphabetically, and read their biographies.

Provides a list of Sudanese musicians, including photographs and RealAudio clips.

Presents discographies of popular African musical artists, arranged by musical style and country.

Publishes books about and CDs containing African, world, folk and popular music. Browse the book and CD lists, or place an order.

Promotion for the 2001 festival, in Seaside, California, lists the program of workshops, concerts, and community talks. Listen to sound clips from festivals past.