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. :(
Tbh it’s not just African music, I find it’s anything not Western. So many cool instruments that just aren’t used that commonly in the mainstream. I’ve been really enjoying a metal band called Bloodywood as they incorporate traditional Indian instruments and I’ve not heard anything like it before
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 :/