Jerry, as to Mudcat being Euro-centric. Yes.

However, that's not surprising given the fact that there are soooo few people posting on Mudcat who are of non-European descent and/or so few people posting on Mudcat who are of European descent but who live in Africa, South America, the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, or in other non-European majority populated nations.

That said, there have been recent Mudcat threads on African music such as these ones:

African Folk Music
thread.cfm?threadid=99389

and

Nkose Sikelele Africa
thread.cfm?threadid=63182