The pan-Africanist ideal never died—it morphed into hybridised sonic fragments that connect Joburg to Nairobi via Lagos and Accra. One of the latest testaments to the continent’s far-reaching musical ingenuity is OMAH LAY’s “I AM”, which appears on the Port Harcourt singer’s aptly titled CLARITY OF MIND. “I decided to like chill for a minute, like take care of myself, take care of my family, put my mind back in the right space,” LAY tells Apple Music’s Africa Now Radio. “It feels like I’ve just been inside doing all this healing, all this self-growth and I looked at a bunch of records that I made during this time that and I’m like, ‘Yeah, this is CLARITY OF MIND.’” Hear “I AM” on Africa Now alongside everything else hot and new with roots in the continent, and hype up your library by adding anything that vibrates in lockstep with your beat.