The 100 Best African Albums (According To Our Readers) – OkayAfrica

A musician in colorful traditional attire plays an electric guitar and sings on stage in front of a vibrant patterned background, channeling the dynamic spirit celebrated by OkayAfrica and featured on lists of Best African Albums.

Earlier this year, Apple Music curated their 100 best albums list. It made the news for the grandiosity of their ambition, but also for how it focused on North American and European music, without highlighting many African contributions.

We asked ourselves: what should a top 100 album list look like? What genres and artists should be given priority and why? These questions made it clear to us that judging music is always a subjective activity. With that in mind, we gave the power to our readers in trying to gauge what a 100 Best African…