His latest project is a return to his roots, and an effort to put genuinely Togolese music on the map. Dogo du Togo's debut album is a gem, eleven warm and inviting, mostly acoustic tracks with unique ...

So in Togo you have cultural music, but if you want to do something modern, you need to learn pop, funk or soul, that kind of music, like a musician. So I used to play a lot of music, like a musician, ...

Musician King Mensah, whose real name is Mensah Mensah, was born into a poor family of six children in the Be Kpota neighbourhood of Lome, the capital of Togo. The son of a traditional Togolese singer ...

We value music for its illusive ability to transport us, but Dogo du Togo takes the idea quite literally. “I want this music to give people joy,” the Togo-born bandleader said of his songcraft on a ...