We Be All Africans
The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember, photographed for Common, curated by Khanya Mashabela, 6 May – 26 July 2023. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title
We Be All Africans
Date
1972-1977 (republished 2016)
Authors
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
Type
Vinyl record
Idris Ackamoor founded the Pyramids in the early 1970s while attending Antioch College. The band developed its style during a lengthy tour of Africa, living in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Ghana. It combined American jazz and soul with folk and popular music from East and West Africa. In 1977, the band's original line-up broke up. Ackamoor has, however, reformulated the band multiple times. We Be All Africans is one of its newer releases.
