The famous blind couple, Amadou & Mariam, helped take Mali’s rich musical traditions to a new global audience.

The 33-year-old is determined to be that pioneer and last year also produced the continent’s first AI-powered music album Infinite Echoes. Nkasi says he has intentionally taken ...

Last week saw Sony Music West Africa hold its two-day 'In Her Element' conference in Lagos, Nigeria, gathering women from all ...

Growing up in a rural part of Tennessee, Keenan Webster would listen to gospel music at church, and hear the influence of ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

Fela Kuti is renowned as the innovator of Afrobeat, a creative blend of his native West African music, James Brown funk, and big horn jazz rhythms that were meant for more than just jump up dance and ...

For a little more than three decades, Simmons has taught classes in West African and Afro-Cuban music and history at Duke University. Simmons says his djembe classes are typically small. But that does ...

Our four non-Western music ensembles—open to both music majors and non-music majors—explore West African Highlife, Japanese, Gamelan and Latin American traditions. Each ensemble presents one public ...

The suite incorporates at its rhythmic core the instruments and patterns of West African music. Each of the songs is based on archetypal songs or dances, such as Agbadza, Gahu and Kpanlogo. The first ...

Burna Boy, Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. Afrobeats has dominated global dance music for the last decade or so. Many of us will remember how acts like P-Square of Nigeria ...

The married singers, who met when she was 18 and he 21, took traditional Mali music and blended it with ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing ...