Bridging the Sahara and the Gulf of Guinea: ANEWAL, Sam Fan Thomas, and the Trans-African Soundscape of Timchar
Executive Overview In the mid-1980s, the flickering, monochrome screen of Niger’s nascent public television broadcast a vision that would permanently alter a young nomadic boy’s trajectory. On that screen danced Sam Fan Thomas, the Cameroonian maestro whose infectious 1984 global anthem, "African Typic Collection," had transformed dance floors from Douala to Paris. Decades later, that … Read more
