Here are a few CDs you might enjoy:

Pieces of Africa: Kronos Quartet nonesuch 79275

Music by black Africans, played by the Kronos Quartet

Lambarena

What's the common link between J.S. Bach and the West African country
of Gabon?

Dr. Albert Schweitzer--the Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian who
established a hospital at Lambarene on the Ogowe River in Gabon in
1914--and who also wrote a two-volume study of Bach.  In tribute to
Schweitzer, Parisian-based musicians Pierre Akendengue and Hughes de
Courson, Gabon's master composer, poet laureate and cultural figurehead,
both men of profound musical intuition and creative audacity.  have devised
an unlikely mingling of the classical music of two continents by combining
well-known compositions by Bach with analogously themed traditional songs
and dances of Gabon.

Fanshawe: African Sanctus silva 6003

The first version of David Fanshawe's African Sanctus came out in 1975.
There's a new edition now.  The composer David Fanshawe says this is the
definitive recording, incorporating all the revision he's made.  African
Sanctus is an unorthodox setting of the Latin Mass integrated with
authentic traditional African music recorded by the composer on his
journeys up the river Nile thorough Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya.
This was from 1969 to 1973.  It's in 13 movements.

Missa Luba: An African Mass and 10 Kenyan melodies.  Philips 426 836

Missa Luba is a Mass in Congolese style for a mixed chorus.

Renaissance: Soweto String Quartet bmg 7009

I picked up this CD in the Johannesburg Airport.  Songs my mother taught
me, written by Dvorak, was recorded at sunset on the banks of a river in
Africa.  Other works are Mangwane/Ee'Motswala (two of South Africa's best
known traditional wedding songs) and Sikelela, based on several Southern
African traditional songs with a neo-classical piece written for the Soweto
String Quartet by Johan Laas.

Others:

Hannibal: African Porrtaits  teldec  98802

It's a history of the African-American experience.

Lamentation: Tunde Jegede triciom records 1001

Music not by Africans but  about Africa:

L.A.G.Q. Sony 60274

The first piece in African Suite is titled Mbira, which is a traditional
African thumb piano. It's played on four standard nylon-string guitars,
but evokes the sound and spirit of Africa.  The composer, Bill Kanengiser,
put staples on the guitar strings.  He's also one of the members of the
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet who are playing this and the companion piece,
Djembe, a joyous composition by Andrew York -- again, a member of the LA
GQ.  It takes it's name from another traditional instrument, in this case
a large wooden drum.  The djembe begins the piece.  It's played by Tim
Timmermans, not a member of the quartet.  He later adds triangle and
shakers.

Classic Elektra  Skylark 9402

Another example of a non-African -- in this case it's the Canadian composer
Stephen Hatfield -- using traditional South African freedom songs and
making an arrangement of 7 of them.  This African Celebration is performed
by the Elektra Women's Choir.

Susan