Youssou N'Dour is as grand a figure as African music has yet produced. Twenty-five years ago, Folk Roots magazine named him ...

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Teddy Osei of OSIBISA Group Fame was not just an influential leader of a group of highly successful world class musicians but ...

South African musician McCoy Mrubata will be returning to the LHE/PAC’s Bradley Backstage on April 17, at 7 p.m. Mrubata will ...

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 ...

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

From African music’s limited recognition to the debate over Chris Brown’s controversial Afrobeats nomination at the Grammys - will African music ever get the stage it deserves?

Watershed etched its place in the annals of South African music history in 2000 with the release of their instant hit Indigo Girl.

Africa Music Library (AML), a non-governmental music collective dedicated to the archiving, preservation and study of African music, and connecting older and newer generation of African musicians ...

In 1993, pioneering Atlanta rapper and producer Peter “MC Shy D” Jones released the upbeat “Fellas What Y’all Want,” which samples Kraftwerk’s “Tour De France.” Jones chose the sample because the song ...

In a strategic move to expand access to East Africa’s vibrant soundscape, Africa’s premium music streaming platform, Josplay, has announced a game-changing partnership with Opus Music Africa.