Afro Gypsy News Today

Catching up with people these days is a trip. So many people I talk to have had major life changes since 2020. Some good, some bad and some just different.

Alostmen: "Kologo" As a member of the Ghanaian hip-hop pranksters, the FOKN Bois, Wanlov the Kubolor is known for going barefoot, so as if to signal a shift, the first single from his new group Alostmen begins with an invitation to listeners to put on their dancing shoes. But the biggest difference isn’t footwear—listen to the backbeat percussion, coming not from a drum machine but from the two-string, traditional Frafra lute, the kologo. It’s a bit of a statement of purpose: traditional...