The cover of the newly reissued 1977 LP Yoyi, originally released by Jorge Soler León under the name Grupo los Yoyi Credit: Courtesy of Future Rootz Medina grew up in Cuba, but his voracious appetite ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2012, Sipho Mabuse graduated from high school in Soweto. He was 61. As a child in the 1960s, he had been too ...

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Note: This article was originally published in April 2005. It was created at a time when African music was on the cusp of becoming an increasingly large part of the Western pop culture landscape.

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