A couple of weeks ago I remarked how the University of Mainz’s African Music Archive had pushed the total of records in this discography past the 5,000 mark. I have since completed adding to this website as many records from the archive as I could find - almost 350 in total.

What’s great about the Mainz archive is that it fills in many missing titles from important labels. More than 80 titles have been added to the Equator listings and more than 60 to those for Polydor, for example, as well as important additions to the Philips, Pathe, Mzuri and Moto Moto discographies.

In addition, German record collector Martin Fuchs stumbled upon the site and has very kindly took time to send in details of East African records in his collection. These include discs by top Congolese bands on ASL as well as recordings on two new labels, Editions Boyoma and Swaga. The latter is a single about a controversial moment in Kenyan history that still reverberates in political circles.