Their impact is especially visible online, where African artists dominate viral charts, TikTok challenges and YouTube trends.

Music has always been a mirror of its time, expressing a shared global emotion that transcends borders and cultures. And with ...

Somi is a jazz singer whose music fuses African and African-American musical traditions. She talks with Farai Chideya about her twinned roots in Rwandan, Uganda and Champaign, Ill. CHIDEYA: This is ...

MBW’s World Leaders series meets Nuno Rocha, Head of Business Development for MENA, Lusophone, and Francophone markets at ...

Nigerian Afrobeats stars Davido, Burna Boy, and Ayra Starr, among those nominated in the Best African Music Performance ...

While there are those who place flowers upon graves to honour the dead, others dust off the archives to reissue the music of an artist lost to time. Pianist Gideon Nxumalo, who died in 1970, was ...

"I can’t wait to celebrate the incredible music that comes out of Africa, which has inspired me throughout my career," the music star says. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor DJ Khaled will serve ...

COLUMBIA — “Mama Africa,” a musical about a South African singer and activist who was exiled during apartheid, will be performed Wednesday night in Jesse Auditorium. The play is part of the 30-year ...

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has extended its limited engagement of Step Afrika!’s Magical Musical ...

The death of "Mama Africa" sent shock waves through South Africa, where callers flooded local radio stations with their recollections of her. In Guinea, where Makeba lived most of her decades in exile ...

Downtown Music Holdings announced today that it has acquired South Africa-based Sheer Music Publishing, the largest independent music publisher in Africa. Building on a long-standing relationship ...