This album is a cinematic journey into medieval West Africa, where the rise of empires, the weight of lineage, and the unseen world of myth move together through sound. Inspired by the legacy of Sundiata Keita and the oral traditions that carried history across generations, each track is built from rhythm first: kora, balafon, dunun, and voice.

From royal courts to marshland myths, where the legend of the Ninka Nanka still breathes, these compositions reimagine history through a lens of folklore and imagination.

This is sound rooted in the Sahel.

Drums carry tension.
Chants carry memory.
Silence carries power.

Composed by Suno. 

Serpent of the Marshlands

The Lion’s Gaze - Spoken Word

Thrones of the Red Dust

Gold Roads of the Sahel

The Tower Under Moonlight

Last Word of the Griot - Contemporary

The Lion’s Gaze - Choir

Illusion and Song (Finale)

Last Word of the Griot

What does it mean to be independent? Not just for a nation and its people, but for its
women? In this episode, we meet three sisters - a teacher, a journalist, and a health
professional - whose lives map the trajectory of their nation, and who are carving out
their own forms of independence in their Third Age, as entrepreneurs, mature
students, and divorcées. Yet the spectre of regret is never far away...

A Women's Oral History Of West Africa: Ep. 2 Togo - Independent Women

A five-part podcast series spotlighting the lives of everyday women in West Africa aged over 60, offering an alternative postcolonial history of the region with women at its heart. Sign up to the newsletter for more. Supported by the National Geographic Society.

New tracks tagged #West Africa