Guardian Music — Train hired by musicians' collective including Baaba Maal and Jupiter Bokondji embarks on tour of British cities by railThe train ready for departure from Euston station at 11.30am on Sunday wasn't the usual Virgin service to Stoke-on-Trent.For one t... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonYinka Shonibare, curator of this year's Deloitte Ignite weekend at the Royal Opera House, is an artist who works with provocative, deliberately anachronistic juxtapositions. His Diary of a Victorian Dandy inserts an African m... more info

Guardian Music — For the next week, more than 80 African and western acts – including Amadou and Mariam, Damon Albarn and many more – are touring the UK by train, stopping off for shows in schools and factories and a series of special gigs. With exclusive access ... more info

Guardian Music — The musical collective known as Africa Express played its first-ever proper gig at the Glastonbury festival in 2007. Here is Algerian singer Rachid Taha covering the Clash's Rock the Casbah with Damon Albarn, Billy Bragg, Baaba Maal and more more info

Guardian Music — The Manchester United star explains why he's supporting Africa Express, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKThe Manchester United player grew up in Peckham, south London. He has worked on football proje... more info

Guardian Music — The London MC and actor on this year's Africa Express, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKBorn Kane Robinson in Newham, east London, Kano is a grime MC and actor. His fifth solo album is out this year.... more info

Guardian Music — The Malian singer on her hopes for African music and Africa Express, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKSince the release of her acclaimed debut, Fatou, last year, the statuesque Malian singer has prov... more info

Guardian Music — The Congolese star on his country's music and the UK Africa Express tour, featuring 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKJupiter Bokondji is the star of Jupiter's Dance, a seminal documentary about the music scene in K... more info

Guardian Music — Eighty musicians, one train and a string of stops across Britain. This could be the most extraordinary tour of the year…It's late afternoon in west London and the Senegalese star Baaba Maal and Damon Albarn, from nearby in the neighbourhood, are lo... more info

Guardian Music — The singer, one of the driving forces behind Africa Express, on his hopes for the tour, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKDamon Albarn's creative period didn't end when Blur pressed pause in 2003: it ... more info