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African Cassettes is an online cassettography dedicated to documenting African music released on cassettes. Currently the project is in an early development stage. A list of all cassettes included until now can be seen here. New cassettes are being added on a daily base. The project is based at and supported by the [1] (AMA) at the University of Mainz.

Recent additions

Cassettes arranged by country

C

Cassettes from Cameroon
Cassettes from Congo


D

Cassettes from DRC/Zaïre

E

Cassettes from Ethiopia
Cassettes from Eritrea

G

Cassettes from Gabon
Cassettes from Ghana
Cassettes from Guinea

I

Cassettes from Ivory Coast


K

Cassettes from Kenya

L

Cassettes from Liberia

M

Cassettes from Madagascar
Cassettes from Mali

N

Cassettes from Nigeria

S

Cassettes from São Tomé and Príncipe
Cassettes from Senegal
Cassettes from South Africa

T

Cassettes from Tanzania
Cassettes from Togo


U

Cassettes from Uganda


Z

Cassettes from Zimbabwe




AMA - African Music Archive

The African Music Archive at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is collecting modern African music and makes it available to science and research. It hosts music on all kinds of media: shellac and vinyl records, as well as audio and video cassettes, CDs and DVDs. It currently hosts a unique collection of 15,000 sound recordings from the 1940s until the present. Beyond academic work, AMA seeks to make knowledge about African music accessible to a broader public.


'African Cassettes' is maintained by Andreas Wetter.