The hugely popular music video is a testimony to its widespread acclaim. It is another notch in Tanzanian pop star Diamond Platnumz’s belt as an alchemist of international crossover hits. In ...
I tend to listen to music as a way to help make sense of things, but that seemed impossible this year. On my beat there was COVID, of course, but the year began with a deadly crackdown in Uganda. 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 ...
The first thing Dee Williams noticed was that it felt like home. It was December 2019, and the Los Angeles-based photographer had just touched down in Accra, Ghana, for the first time. What she found ...
Musicians and music educators of African nationality and living in an African country are invited to submit AI-driven music project proposals. By Heran Mamo The Wits Innovation Centre and Machine ...
In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...