In Africa, electronic music is bubbling. Across the vast continent, fresh machine-generated sounds are popping off, sometimes drawing on outside influences, sometimes made within their own creative bubble. Out of them all gqom could be the most outlandish.

The distant roots of American jazz lay in Africa. But how did Afro-America’s revolutionary sound reshape African music? Featuring Fela Kuti, Mulatu Astatke, Franco, TPOK Jazz, Djelimady Tounkara, Youlou Mabiala....

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