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

Apple Music has released this month’s Africa Now DJ Mix, featuring Nigerian DJ and cultural tastemaker DJ Obi. With over two ...

Thinking back on the biggest cultural moments of 2024, it’s hard to ignore the many African women who were at the center of it all. Over the past decade, global African music has been dominated by ...

Apple Music has expanded its flagship African Music playlist and radio brand, 'Africa Now;, to include a new monthly DJ Mix created exclusively for the platform. “There’s almost no greater feeling ...

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 ...

Apple Music today announces The Sounds of Africa for Africa Month 2026, celebrating the musical identities of some of the ...

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. That momentum will be on display ...

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. ...

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 ...

Conference to tackle cracks in the African music industry and support systems ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...