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

I am not a musical person. I have zero co-ordination and I mime at pretty much every event that includes music, including school assemblies, weddings, parties and (gulp) the national anthem. You know ...

Franklin Digber, known in Accra, Ghana, as Eff the DJ, rose to stardom by performing sets at event parties and branded activations. At night, however, Digber would transform Accra’s nightlife under ...

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. Sarz headlines Africa Now DJ Mix Apple ...

The Roots' leader recruited the actor for Okayafrica's Africa in Your Earbuds series after learning of his DJ sets and record store adventures. By Colin Stutz Actor Elijah Wood plays the lead in ...

Spotify is celebrating the rebranding of African Heat, its flagship African music playlist that has shone a light on some of the continent’s hottest music since its launch in 2017. Joeboy performing ...

Marvel’s Black Panther is once again roaring in multiplexes with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” opening Friday, and there will be much internet ink spilled over what life must be like in the ...

Ebo Taylor became one of Ghana’s major prolific musicians in the 1950s and ’60s, making his signature Ghanaian highlife that influenced the father of afrobeat, Fela Kuti. As highlife and afrobeat ...

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July-August issue of the magazine. At Afropunk’s 2019 New Year’s Eve festival in South Africa, DJ Moma was scheduled ...