The Rough Guide to Acoustic Africa

The Rough Guide To Acoustic Africa
Compilation album by
Various artists
Released25 March 2013
GenreWorld, Acoustic, African
Length127:08
LabelWorld Music Network
Full series chronology
The Rough Guide to African Disco
(2013)
The Rough Guide To Acoustic Africa
(2013)
The Rough Guide to Flamenco
(2013)
Complete list

The Rough Guide To Acoustic Africa is a world music compilation album originally released in 2013 featuring acoustic music spanning Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album contains two discs: an overview of the genre on Disc One, and a "bonus" Disc Two highlighting griot Noumoucounda Cissoko. Disc One features artists hailing from Niger, Madagascar, the DRC, South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Cameroon, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan, Senegal, and Guinea. All but three tracks are guitar-based. The extensive liner notes were written by Daniel Rosenberg, and Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, produced the album.