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| Map of Africa | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sweet Smells of Independence | |
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| ... And Lumumba Was Dancing the Cha-Cha-Cha: Joseph Kabasele and the Rise of the Congolese Crucible | |
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| E. T. Mensah: The King of Highlife: The Influence of Colonization on Music | |
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| Miriam Makeba: The "Click-Click Girl": South African Music Between Silence and Exile | |
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| Bembeya Jazz and the Syliphone Elephant: The Era of National Pride in Guinea | |
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| Francis Bebey, Pierre Akendengue: The Metropolitans: The Children of Negritude | |
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| Rakoto Frah: The Wizard Merlin of the Sodina: The Malagasy Musical Entity | |
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| The Salt of the Earth | |
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| Thomas Mapfumo and the Ancestors' Mbira in Zimbabwe: National Liberation Music in Southern Africa | |
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| Franco: "You Go in OK, You Come Out KO": The Second Wave of the Congolese Sound | |
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| Fela Kuti: "The Man Who Carried Death in His Pouch": The Quest for the Nigerian Afrobeat | |
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| Mahlathini, "King of the Groaners," and Johnny Clegg, "The White Zulu": The Soweto Stewpot on the Hot Coals of Apartheid | |
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| Roots | |
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| Granmoun Lele and Danyel Waro: The Pulse of Reunionese Maloya: The Memory of the Maroons and the Return of Identity | |
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| Doudou N'Diaye Rose: The Messiaen of the Dakar Medina: Africa and the Return to Rhythm | |
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| The "Strange Niger Blue" of Mali's Ali Farka Toure: The Roots of the Blues | |
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| Bi Kidude: "The Little Thing," Soul of the Zanzibar Taarab: East Africa Between Bantu and Arab Colors | |
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| Crisis of the Signs | |
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| Toure Kunda and the "Dance of the Leaves": African Immigration and the Vogue for Black Music | |
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| Salif Keita: The Treason of the Albino: The Contradictions of the Modern Griot | |
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| M'Pongo Love: The Feminist Who "Tickles" Men: African Diversity's Unspoken Matter | |
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| Zao: "Mr. Corpse": The Spices of Humorous Music | |
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| Alpha Blondy: "i Am a Rastafoulosophe, You Know!": The Rooting of Reggae in Africa | |
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| Mamadou Konte's Little Hat: The Activists of Black Showbiz | |
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| The Eskista of Mahmoud Ahmed: The Case of Ethio-Jazz | |
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| World Sound | |
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| Mory Kante: The Electric Griot: The Mutations of the Instrument | |
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| Papa Wemba: The Elegant Rumba: The Third Congolese Wave | |
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| Geoffrey Oryema, or the Sorrow of the Great Lakes: What Music After Rwanda? | |
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| From Kode di Dona to Cesaria Evora: Sodade in A Major: The Music of Cape Verde | |
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| Anne-Marie Nzie: "The Golden Voice of Cameroon": When "Country" Music Is Invited into World Music | |
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| Leaving the Twentieth Century | |
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| Manu "Papa Groove" Dibango: The Pastor and His Flock: From Sidney Bechet to Techno | |
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| Abidjan--Dakar--Johannesburg: What's All This Gnama-Gnama?: Rap, Zouglou, Kwaito: The New Generation | |
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| The Youssou N'Dour Connection: The Prototype of the African Artist of the Future? | |
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| Ray Lema, or the Great World Band: When Music Is Humanism | |
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| Afterword: The Duty of Memory | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Musical Areas: Africa in Ethnomusicolor | |
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| Musical Genres and Styles | |
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| Glossary of Instruments | |
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| Selected Discography | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |