Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yannis was exposed to African music by his South African mother. He calls Sounds of Soweto “simple childhood wallpaper of music.” ...

But in all of these, a huge part of us have lost the meaning of ‘Afrobeat’, confusing the term with a false misnomer coined in the UK called ‘Afrobeats’ (Afrobeat with an ‘s’). When the originator of ...

Older genres classed in the World Music category and headlined by Angélique Kidjo continue to inspire newer genres, Afrobeats and Amapiano. Here are 25 standout tunes of 2023. 1. Tyler ICU & Tumelo.za ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2Baba, Tiwa Savage, and Shatta Wale Most people confuse Afrobeat and Afrobeats but don’t know that the two are predominantly ...

Seun Kuti, the youngest son of Afrobeat legend Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti, has described the Afrobeat music as a representation of the true reality of African people. The leader of the Egpyt 80 band made ...

Thirty years after his death, Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Grammys. He’ll be the first African to achieve the honour since the award ...

It is, almost, too good to be true. With his second album, the aptly titled From Africa With Fury: Rise, co-produced with Brian Eno, Seun Kuti delivers on the promise of his debut, Many Things (Tot Ou ...

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 ...

In the late 1960s, Fela decided that he had no use for love songs or party tunes; he wanted to challenge unjust authority. By Jon Pareles Resistance is etched into Afrobeat, the music forged by the ...

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 ...

Nigerian Afrobeat artiste Kenneth Afure Okudi, popularly known as Big Ken, is emerging as one of the promising voices determined to push African music onto the global stage. Known for his distinctive ...

If you were to bring a West African drummer together with a black person from Venezuela, they’ll be able to groove, and understand each other, even though they may not be able to speak to each other.