The Mozambican music band Ghorwane, known as "Os Bons Rapazes", will take part in the 23rd edition of the Festival Músicas do Mundo in Sines and Porto Covo, Portugal.

The festival, announced to take place between July 22 and 29, will also bring together other African artists such as Os Tubarões (Cape Verde), África Negra (São Tomé and Príncipe) and Tabanka Djaz, Eneida Marta and Super Mama Djombo, representing Guinea-Bissau.

The African delegation also includes the French-Moroccan Bab L'Bluz and the Tuareg band Tinariwen, the Senegalese Lass, the Ghanaian Alotge Oho&His Sounds of Joy, the Congolese group Kin'Gongolo Kiniata and the Madalitso Band, which is making its Malawi debut at the festival.

One of Africa's greatest artists, Nigerian singer Nneka, will be in Sines, while Mali will be joined by singer Rokia Koné and the band Bamba Wassoulou Groove.

With 15 concerts, Africa is the origin of more than a third of the artists invited to this year's edition, organized by the Sines City Council. Other artists taking part in the FMM are from Portugal, Brazil, France, Estonia, England, Spain, Syria, Mexico, Cuba and Jamaica.