Africa and the Caribbean have written a decisive part of global culture — and you are already listening to its echoes without realizing it. Jazz, blues, reggae, afrobeats, or amapiano were born from their rhythms; the novels of Chinua Achebe, Mia Couto, or Maryse Condé tell their stories.
Afromix.org is a wiki portal dedicated to these two families of arts, written in French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Its strength lies in the links: from a musical style we glide to its artists, from an artist to their country and instruments, from a work to its author. From page to page, it is an entire creative continent that one traverses, from Senegal to Havana, from Kingston to Johannesburg.
African and Caribbean music
From Fela Kuti’s afrobeat to South African amapiano, from Ghanaian highlife to Kassav’ zouk, from Bob Marley’s reggae to Congolese rumba: explore the styles, artists and their biographies, the countries, the instruments from kora to steelpan, and the labels that made the world dance.
African and Antillean literature
From Olaudah Equiano’s slave narrative to Nobel Prize winners Wole Soyinka and Abdulrazak Gurnah, from the négritude of Senghor and Césaire to Alejo Carpentier’s “marvelous real”: authors and key works to read Africa and the Caribbean, or reread classics in light of their genealogies.
Start wherever you want — with a rhythm, a name, or a cover. The world’s playlist is written here, and it already speaks your language.