Top Albums released in 2017
- Oddisee – The Iceberg
- Sampa the Great – Birds and BEE9
- Bongeziwe Mabandla – Mangaliso
- Kardajala Kirridarra – Bardakurru Ngurra
- Chronixx – Chronology
- Les Amazones d'Afrique – Republique Amazone
- Makadem & Behr – Nyako
- Moses Sumney – Afromanticism
- SZA – Ctrl
- Mista Savona presents Havana Meets Kingston
- Jordan Rakei – Wallflower
- Oumou Sangaré – Mogoya
- Estère – My Design Pt1
- Sibusile Xaba – Open Letter To Adoniah
- Samthing Soweto – Valamehlo: A Lullaby For Grown Up
- Odunsi (The Engine) – Desire
- Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley – Stony Hill
- Thundercat – Drunk
- Ondatrópica – Baile Bucanero
- Samthing Soweto – Akanamali
- Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly
- Kendrick Lamar – DAMN
- Quantic & Nidia Góngora – Curao
- Tinariwen – Elwan
- Tony Allen – The Source
- Sudan Archives – s/t
- Ibeyi – Ash
- Odunsi (The Engine) & Nonso Amadi – War
- Nai Palm – Needle Paw
- The Black Seeds – Fabric
- Amadou & Mariam – La Confusion
- Juls – Leap Of Faith
- Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives
- Tune Recreation Committee – Voices Of Our Vision
- Bonono – Migration
- Jojo Abot – NGIWUNKULUNKULU
- Kelela – Take Me Apart
- Sampha – Process
- Cold Specks – Fool’s Gold
- Kamasi Washington – Harmony Of Difference
- Ifriqiyya Electrique – Rûwâhîne
- Johnny Cradle – s/t
- Louis Baker – Addict
- Mali Music – The Transition of Mali
- Kajama – Polarity Prism
- Maia & the Big Sky – s/t
- New Venusians – s/t
- The XX – I See You
- 30/70 – Elevate
- Thomas Oliver – Floating In The Darkness