The story of African Music captures the hopes and dreams of people or continent etched in joy,pain,humiliation. In this small sample,the book captures these few genres and the current and dynamics of those issues, factors and challenges that make African Music such a huge success. The book is an essential reading for a complete understanding of what African music is, and means. For the first reader or outsider, it offers a useful guide to what has been hidden from the open couched in ridicule, aspersion and stereotyping. Quite informative and interesting.