Reggae

Bass culture is as old as Zimbabwe itself

We South Africans know our coalitions (we’ll probably see more after our elections) and the recently released Apple Music 100 Best Albums list smells exactly like one

Film has all the hits, none of the misses – and very little of the miss-e

South Africa and Jamaica share a history marked by colonisation and slavery

‘Time Come’, a collection of essays, speech, reviews and other forms of prose by the dub poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson, makes for compelling reading

Christianity tells us to worry about hellfire; Bob Marley tells us ‘Don’t worry about a thing’. Drew Forrest looks at the Jamaican singer’s timeless appeal

Stunning show is a sonic exploration of a note written by the musician to the land of freedom centred around love and words

An extract from the biography ‘People Funny Boy’: how the maverick producer transformed the sound of reggae and its number-one group

Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’, part of the ‘Small Axe’ anthology, is an ethereal interlude that takes us inside the blues party bubble

Sixteen bullets and 27 operations later, Tanzania’s main opposition leader has recovered from a brutal assassination attempt – and is now in the middle of an even bigger fight

Having missed the chance to form a coalition, a so-called ‘endorsement’ may be the next-best step

The iconic concert to celebrate independence in Zimbabwe would prove to contain a warning

Gibson Mandishona on how he helped compose a reggae classic

A brick of a book on reggae record sleeves shows how the artwork reflects the history of Jamaica.

We are used to this now: a barnstorming, fire-eating raggamuffin DJ who, midway through his career, discovers dancehall’s conscious roots.