During the course of the past 50 years, guitar music from Africa has gifted the world a vast array of incredible records, musicians, songs and musical styles. TG gives you a definitive guide. Africa ...

Back in the ’60s, the template for a protest singer was set as an earnest fingerstyle folkie, regaling a cross-legged audience in a Greenwich Village coffee house. 5,000 miles away, and a half-century ...

You don’t necessarily need a vintage Les Paul or a shiny Stratocaster to be a guitar hero. A Cape Town-based company is crafting eye-catching electric guitars out of re-purposed oil cans, striking a ...

The guitar stands tall and proud, the neck is longer than usual, and the body of the instrument shaped like the African continent is a dark shade of brown. The African Electric Guitar (AEG), is the ...

Better than: Buying a plane ticket to Mali. Western listeners (that’s us, if you were wondering) often need comparisons to dig deeper into “world music.” If that’s what it takes, Wednesday night’s ...

Since then the popularity of the guitars - many of which are covered with a sticker of the colourful South African flag - has grown beyond his wildest dreams. "When we produced the first one we ...

They were just the right questions to ask when we sat right across the tall, handsome man wearing a blue-black baseball cap with the bold inscription “Instruments of Africa” spelt out across it. “What ...

Last week, rock and roll superstars Oasis donated their guitar for a charity auction to benefit Street Child Africa, an organization which befriends children living on city streets across the ...

Here’s something you don’t see every day: St. Peter’s Basilica, typically a showcase for traditional and sober forms of Catholic worship, rocking to the beat of bongo drums and bass guitars, as a ...

JOHANNESBURG – His skull still open, a South African musician with a brain tumor played several notes on his guitar during a successful operation to remove most of the growth. Musa Manzini's ...

During the course of the past 50 years, guitar music from Africa has gifted the world a vast array of incredible records, musicians, songs and musical styles. TG gives you a definitive guide. Africa ...