Africa's music festival landscape has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, and as we sit here , it's impossible to ...

Halmblog Music’s mission extends beyond technology — it’s a movement advocating for fair representation and artist-first values in an industry that’s rapidly transforming. With over 1,000 independent ...

Legit.ng PR Manager Felix Imoh says African music needs media ownership, not virality, to gain lasting global value. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burna Boy won Album of the Year for No Sign of Weakness which was released in July 2025 [Getty Images] Nigerian artists secured a ...

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 ...

Traditional African musical sounds and songs are under threat today. More than 50 years after the end of official colonial rule, the legacy of colonialism continues to sideline many traditional ...

The mostly female African musical troupe Tartit was formed in the 1990s to play the European folk circuit. But these days, they're louder and faster. The mostly female African troupe, Tartit, who was ...

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 ...

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 ...