The story of popular music in the late 20th century is never complete without an account of the explosive psychedelic rock, funk and Afrobeat styles that proliferated on the African continent and across Latin American and the Caribbean in the 1960s and 70s. It’s only lately, that large audiences are discovering how much pioneering music came out of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and other postcolonial countries, thanks to UK labels like Strut and Soundway. Germany’s Analogue Africa, a label that reissues classic albums from the era, puts it this way: “the future of music happened decades ago.” Only most Western audiences...