The very function of African music is traditional in nature. The continent possesses a rich heritage of old instruments and sounds; and bringing these into the modern era has its challenges. These challenges include finding out the original owners of the records, or in most cases, their descendants, and compensating them dutifully for analog recordings.
Another challenge is the fact that many of such recordings have gone into near-extinction, and it often takes the efforts of a record label or organization interested in funding the…
