Hire a boat to Tarkwa Bay Beach, shop at markets selling art and tailored clothes, and head to the New Afrika Shrine for a ...

Late Christian Atsu's wife, Marie-Claire Rupio, has announced her latest yet emotional music project with Afrobeat artiste, ...

Charles de Ledesma tells us about Afrobeat, the latest music trend in dance clubs in London. Afrobeat originated in Lagos, Nigeria in the late 1960s. It borrows heavily from American jazz ...

Cape Cod's Juneteenth celebrations will resonate with the rhythms of freedom, resistance, and solidarity as two celebrated ...

GONYEA: The album draws inspiration from jazz, funk and West African music, and it pays homage to the Afrobeat sound that Femi's father, Fela Kuti, helped create in the 1960s. Kuti spoke to us ...

He began his role with CBS Bay Area in 2015. The son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti brings his father's longtime band Egypt 80 to San Francisco to headline the Great American Music Hall ...

He wasn’t always so self-assured. When Obongjayar first started posting music to SoundCloud, he was making “terrible American rap,” he says, trying to be someone he was not. “If you grew ...

Afrobeat, more than just a genre, has evolved into a culture, a movement, a pulse of identity stretching far beyond the shores of Africa. Its dawn is not merely marked by a new sound in the global ...

Was Afrobeat Shaped by a Black American Woman? *A spirited debate has resurfaced online over the role of Sandra Izsadore, a Black American woman from Los Angeles, in shaping Afrobeat—the iconic ...

Afrobeat, funk, reggae, rap, and jazz all come together in the deluxe edition of the 2024 album coming out May 30, which fuels the main event. Meanwhile, the lyrics explore themes of “resistance and ...

Popular Liberian Afrobeat singer Jonathan Lee, widely known as JZyNo, has issued a passionate call for national unity as Liberia prepares for one of the most significant moments in its diplomatic ...

Although it feels like ages since Afrobeat champions Bengali 600 have been on the scene, it’s not like they’ve just been sitting around on their asses. Nope, nuh-uh. This weekend, the Orlando ...