Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm Condition:Like New piercing insight

piercing insight

and his transformed life after his return

But in her tumultuous world

onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees

already two-thirds dead

Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm Condition:Like New piercing insightBased on exclusive interviews, Breakout tells the often riveting personal stories of fourteen popular musicianssome well known, others notfrom Zaire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. The first book on African pop music to look closely at the lives of the musicians themselves, Breakout deals with four African musical genres: soukous, highlife, afro beat, and palm wine. Amid Africa's deepening economic and political crises of the last two decades,