A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed ...

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 ...

Over the last 30 years one of the very cool trends in the international music scene is the growing popularity of West African “desert blues”: music from the Sahel region that draws on some of the same ...

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 ...

Grace Nyele Mensah, Operations and Music Publishing Lead at Ghana's Apprise Music, represented the West African nation at the ...

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

Audiomack’s rise in West Africa was initially unintentional, but it has since become a case study in the potential of emerging markets and how smaller music platforms can thrive alongside ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EMPIRE, which already has big presences in West Africa and North Africa, is expanding into South Africa with a new office in Johannesburg.

A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed ...