Music was an essential part of my family’s household when I was growing up. Our day-to-day lives always had a soundtrack. Sometimes, we washed dishes to American greats like The Supremes, Aretha ...

Burna Boy, Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. Afrobeats has dominated global dance music for the last decade or so. Many of us will remember how acts like P-Square of Nigeria colonised ...

Africa’s festival scene is giving people a new way to travel the continent, one built around what is happening in music right now.

Africa's music festival landscape has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, and as we sit here , it's impossible to deny how much the continent has become a powerhouse for live music ...

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

A couple of years ago, pioneer African music TV channel, Channel O hardly featured Kenyan videos. It was all a South African and Nigerian affair as East African artistes cried foul, claiming that the ...

Spotify and ONErpm hosted a Nairobi workshop to help East African artists grow through recording, branding, and music business training.

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 ...

London - More than 125 years of black music in Britain is being celebrated in the inaugural exhibition at the new V&A East museum in Stratford, London. RFI was at the opening to explore how music from ...