South African music powerhouse Nomcebo Zikode captivated audiences and closed the high-profile Africa Forward Summit 2026 ...

As African music continues to gain international traction, digital platforms focused on regional genres are attracting ...

Africa’s festival scene is giving people a new way to travel the continent, one built around what is happening in music right now.

Cuban music is a combination of Spanish décima poetry and African music and rhythms, but we know that the driving forces in Cuban music are the African polyrhythms, not the poetry. Some might say that ...

Nigerian Afrobeats sensation Tiwa Savage walked around a music centre in Lagos, smiling, listening and giving words of ...

Rankings are a part of daily life, be it through sports or music. In a recent publication, the American magazine Rolling Stone published a list of the 200 greatest singers of all time – all within the ...

South Africa is celebrating 30 years since apartheid ended and Nelson Mandela became the nation’s first Black president. In the U.S., a South African musical group is spreading Mandela’s message of ...

Delegates at event in Cape Verde highlight opportunities from tech while stressing AI is no replacement for talent ...

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 ...