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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Amadou Bagayoko, part of the blind duo Amadou & Mariam, passed away at 70. Renowned for blending West African sounds with Western influences, their album 'Dimanche a Bamako' elevated them to ...

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 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 ...