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Contemporary African Music is not getting the credit it deserves (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world to c/music@lemmy.world
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I am on a binge, listening to tons of Nigerian, Ugandan and Kenian music, and I am absolutely loving it. Why is this not playing on our (Western European) radio stations regularly?

Instead I have to regularly change stations because someone is trying to torture my ears with Ed Sheeran or similar BS. :(

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I do occasionally hear Indian or Arabic or Chinese / Japanese music around... It's just that until recently I hadn't ever heard the present-day (central?) African pop songs that I stumbled upon and enjoyed. But yes, the western music world is too western-centric, but at the current state of the world, that's not our biggest problem by far :/