From a Pan-African viewpoint, Hip-hop as a musical culture has positioned itself as a means of authenticating the African ...

Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on ...

Should you happen to step through the front doors of the new Go-Go Museum in historical Anacostia having no idea what go-go ...

The Grammy Awards has a dedicated space for African music, but just a year after the category's introduction it is already proving contentious. The Best African Music Performance made its debut with ...

The Grammy Awards has a dedicated space for African music, but just a year after the category's introduction it is already proving contentious. The Best African Music Performance made its debut ...

A new documentary on Afrobeats, Nigerian Yoruba music, and politics will look at a century of fuji, juju, apala, sakara, highlife and more ...

South Africa's capital, Pretoria, will host the inaugural Fusion Fest, an innovative event spotlighting the arts and culture of the Rainbow Nation. Spearheaded by Mahindra, the festival aims to ...

In a fiery podcast interview, DJ Twitty passionately defended Gqom, shutting down critics and highlighting its cultural ...

So, I was exposed to different musical styles, in addition to traditional music from Benin, West Africa, Africa in general, and artists from Congo, Cameroon, Togo and many others. All forms of ...

He’s the unsung hero who has exported the infectious sounds of Afrobeats to the Western world. Alex Ozone has been the driving force behind some of the genre’s biggest moments, connecting African ...