The African Music Archives (AMA), founded in 1991, contains a collection of modern African music which is unique in Germany. It includes shellacs and vinyl-records, audio- and videotapes, CDs and DVDs.

We are located at Jakob-Welder-Weg 12, 55128 Mainz, in the passage from the Georg Forster building to the Zentralbibliothek, room 00.156