If you’ve ever caught yourself singing along to a song in a language you don’t speak, welcome to the club. That’s the magic of music, especially African music. From Lagos to Dar es Salaam to Accra, ...

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture.

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...

T he explosion of Afrobeats has been one of the biggest stories in the music industry over the past five years, with acts like Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, and Tems becoming global superstars. As ...

It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a one-off Balmain couture gown made of sculpted sand will ever forget it. ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 16: Tems performs on the West Stage at All Points East 2024 at Victoria Park on August 16, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Matthew Baker/Getty Images) Grammy-award winning ...

After DJing in Miami for nearly a decade, including a stint as the resident DJ at Red Rooster’s weekly Afro-Caribbean series, the Shrine, Cameroon-born Leslie “Aya” Ayafor noticed a void in the city’s ...