African music

Burna Boy performs at State Farm Arena on Sunday, July 31, 2022, in Atlanta.

Arts, Culture & Media

‘Afrobeats is the party’: The rise of African beats in global music

Sep 6, 2022

The stories of women ostracized by their family and community after being wrongly accused of witchcraft can be heard on a new album called "I've forgotten now who I used to be."

New album lifts up the voices of ostracized women in northern Ghana’s ‘witch camps’

Apr 5, 2021

Arts, Culture & Media

Angelique Kidjo: Traditional Music Is Always Evolving

Mar 24, 2018

Cameroonian musician Moken

Cameroon’s ‘Golden Voice’ struck gold when he won a green card

Aug 22, 2016

South African artist Spoek Mathambo performs in 2011.

Want to find the best Afropop? It’s on Soundcloud — not an album

Jan 2, 2015

Modern salegy artist Aly Mourad performs at Jao's Pub in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Mourad blends traditional salegy with a more upbeat style.

Go inside salegy, the music that dominates Madagascar

Dec 18, 2014

The Malawi Mouse Boys pose with one of their homemade instruments. From left to right: Josephy Nekwankwa, Zondiwe Kachingwe, Nelson Muligo, Alfred Gavanala

For a band of boys from Malawi, ‘performing is easy, life is hard’

Nov 20, 2014

JuJu is made up of Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, the band's founding members.

The music of JuJu is where West African tradition meets English punk

Nov 6, 2014

Drummer Tony Allen

Can music help stop the tragic shipwrecks of migrants coming from Africa?

Sep 15, 2014