Année | Gagnant | Album | Nominations | Ref. |
2003 | Jeszcze Raz | Balagane | - la fiesta mondiale de percussion — The Beat
- Cuban Odyssey — Jane Bunnett
- Raphael Geronimo's Rumba Calzada Vol. 3 — Raphael Geronimo
- Hypnotika — Maza Mezé
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2004 | Kiran Ahluwalia | Beyond Boundaries | | |
2005 | Mighty Popo, Madagascar Slim, Donné Robert, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Adam Solomon, Pa Joe | African Guitar Summit | - Dho-Mach (Sacred Gift) — Achilla Orru
- En Voyage — Les Gitans de Sarajevo
- Four Higher — Autorickshaw
- Road to Kashgar — Orchid Ensemble
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2006 | Alex Cuba | Humo De Tabaco | - Capivara — Celso Machado
- Djama — Alpha Yaya Diallo
- Fusion — Adham Shaikh
- Gaïa — Gaïa
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2007 | Lubo Alexandrov | Kaba Horo | - African Guitar Summit II — Alpha Yaya Diallo, Mighty Popo, Adam Solomon, Pa Joe, Madagascar Slim and Donné Robert
- Bahiatronica — Monica Freire
- Coeur vagabond — Bïa
- The Edge — Mr. Something Something
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2008 | Alex Cuba | Agua del Pozo | | |
2009 | Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko | Africa to Appalachia | - The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun — George Dimitri Sawa
- Cairo to Toronto — Maryem & Ernie Tollar
- Contrabanda — Lubo and Kaba Horo
- Shivaboom — Eccodek
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2010 | Dominic Mancuso | Comfortably Mine | - Alex Cuba — Alex Cuba
- La danse de l’exilé — Karim Saada
- Slide to Freedom 2: Make a Better World — Doug Cox and Salil Bhatt
- Sunplace — Jaffa Road
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2011 | Élage Diouf | Aksil | - Gakondo — Mighty Popo
- The Rumba Foundation — Jesse Cook
- Soy Panamericano — Roberto López Project
- Supermagique — Pacifika
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2012 | Kiran Ahluwalia | Aam Zameen: Common Ground | - From Night to the Edge of Day — Azam Ali
- Afo Gné — Aboulaye Kone and Bolo Kan
- Flores, Tambores e Amores — Aline Morales
- Sleepover — Socalled
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2013 | Lorraine Klaasen | Tribute to Miriam Makeba | - Ruido en el Sistema — Alex Cuba
- Where the Light Gets In — Jaffa Road
- Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me — Danny Michel
- Solidarity — The Souljazz Orchestra
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2014 | David Buchbinder & Odessa/Havana | Walk to the Sea | - Sabor A Café — Adonis Puentes
- Lamentation of Swans: A Journey Towards Silence — Azam Ali and Loga R. Torkian
- Jumbie in the Jukebox — Kobo Town
- Lume, Lume — The Lemon Bucket Orkestra
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2015 | Quique Escamilla | 500 Years of Night | | |
2016 | Boogat | Neo-Reconquista | - Healer — Alex Cuba
- Revuelta Danza Party — Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra
- Moorka — The Lemon Bucket Orkestra
- Resistance — The Souljazz Orchestra
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2017 | Okavango African Orchestra | Okavango African Orchestra | - Nouvelle Journée — Lorraine Klaasen
- Subcontinental Drift — Sultans of String
- Nazar — Turkwaz
- Dance of the Infidels — Nomadica
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2018 | Kobo Town | When the Galleon Sank | - Meter — Autorickshaw
- La Migra — The Battle of Santiago
- A New Tradition Vol. 2: Return of the KUISi — Beny Esguerra and New Tradition
- Femme — Briga
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2019 | Wesli | Rapadou Kreyol | - Zoubida — Ayrad
- San Cristóbal Baile Inn — Boogat
- Naath — Emmanuel Jal and Nyaruach
- Fuerza Arara — Telmary y Habana Sana
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2020 | Djely Tapa | Barokan | - Risorgimento — Romina Di Gasbarro
- Sombras — Okan
- Africa Without Borders — Okavango African Orchestra
- Galactic Gala — Silla + Rise
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2021 | Okan | Espiral | - VelkomBak — Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra
- The Gold Diggers — Lengaïa Salsa Brava
- Patria — Mazacote
- Kora Flamenca — Zal Sissokho
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