African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

LAGOS, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Nigerian artist Adebayo Ayodeji is targeting children to play traditional instruments like drums, which he worries could become extinct and erase an important aspect of the ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

African drumming has always been a key part of the continent's rich cultural heritage, but contemporary artists are now ...

ROXBURY — The Roxbury Arts Group will continue its 2022 performance season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, and will feature Chinobay in a concert of contemporary pan-African music at Roxbury Arts ...

Early on in his new book, "Custodians of Wonder," BBC Travel writer Eliot Stein tallies some recent effects of globalization, a process that seems to only speed up. Nine languages, he notes, are lost ...

Bauchi-born musician John Zuya, famously known as John Mai Molo, has died under mysterious circumstances after reportedly ...