What does the indie rock scene look like in Africa?

Not much indie going on there until recently.

I lived in West Africa for 3 years. In Mali, there's a blues scene that combines American blues with local folk and Arabic vocal music. Rock was a big influence on jazz in Ethiopia and Nigeria. There's an extreme metal scene in southern Africa (Botswana, Angola, etc.) South Africa has a long lived punk scene, and a little bit of a Ska one. Some folk groups are very influenced by rock in West Africa, notably Baaba Maal in Senegal and Amadou & Mariam in Mali.

>>73478157
That's very interesting and informative

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>>73478061
They love Pavement. Steve Malkmus is worshiped like a god.

>>73478157
Why not give us some recs then, mate?

>>73478184
<3

>>73478196
Again, Amadou & Mariam is good. For Malian blues, I really like Vieux Farka Toure and his father, Ali Farka Toure.
For African Jazz, something worth checking out is the collaborations the Dutch anarcho-punk band The Ex did with Ethiopian jazz musicians. When I was there, I really liked Mandinka folk music. There's a good compilation of Senegalese folk and dance music from the 70s called Senegal 70. You can find a lot online about South African punk and Botswana death metal, but I don't know too much, though I strongly recommend the documentary Death Metal Angola, a fascinating doc about how impoverished Angolans got really into death metal because it helped them deal with trauma from the civil war.

>>73478418
>Ali Farka Toure

yes lad

>>73478196
You can also listen to Tinariwen, North African blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JFO7Wb-p2A

>>73478061
Seether's from south africa so just add that to reasons they need to fuck off I guess

>>73478196
Lobi Traoré

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4izMKmUmL0c

>>73478061
An obvious answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWRjgathjA

>>73478061
I guess this is it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl5mR0aM_T0

>>73478102
qt

>>73478639
ikr
It seems like if you took a decent number of the girls from the tribal African memes, gave them showers, and changed their clothes, they'd be hot af

>>73478576
I dig it.

>>73478696
isn't she too skinny?