How do you get people to take personal hygiene seriously in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic? Music and dance. With the whole world almost at a standstill over the rapid spread of coronavirus to ...

For Nigerian Afropop artist Mr. Eazi (Oluwatosin Ajibade), the next wave of African music has arrived. He knows he has a role to play front and center in his own artistry, as well as behind the scenes ...

Music and video streaming service Apple Music has launched a new artist discovery program in Africa called Africa Rising. Every two months through the program, Apple Music’s editorial team will select ...

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July-August issue of the magazine. At Afropunk’s 2019 New Year’s Eve festival in South Africa, DJ Moma was scheduled ...

The first thing Dee Williams noticed was that it felt like home. It was December 2019, and the Los Angeles-based photographer had just touched down in Accra, Ghana, for the first time. What she found ...

We're rolling out the 50 tracks that are the most foundational, influential and popular within Afrobeats. Over the last decade, Afrobeats has made significant inroads in the global music industry, ...

MILWAUKEE - The African Cultural Festival returned to Milwaukee on Saturday, July 6. It took a dedicated group of volunteers to bring the festival back for the first time since 2019. "I see this as a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Field sound recordings are an indispensable source of data for ethnomusicologists. However, to my knowledge there are no standards or ...

This April, Black Coffee, the famed South African DJ and record producer whose real name is Nkosinathi Maphumulo, made history at the Grammys. With his seventh studio album “Subconsciously,” he became ...