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With the Apollo Theater’s annual Africa Now festival set for this weekend and featuring some of today’s hottest African dancehall acts, Best of The Beat on Afropop takes a look back to 2002, when the first wave of dancehall artists springing from African roots and cross-pollinated by Jamaican style began to draw notice internationally.

The feature, by Lisa Poliak, introduces  Senegal’s Daara-J, Pee Froiss, and V.I.B.;

Gambia’s Rebellion D’Recaller, and Dancehall Masters; Tikken Jah Fakoly, Negromuffin and Jo Black from Ivory Coast;

and South Africa’s Bongo Maffin.

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