Highlights for March 19-25 include Bob Dylan, New Edition, two Chicago blues legends and the final Rochester Thaw.

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West Africa — for a generation. By Adam Nossiter Ebo Taylor, who used the lilting ...

Three decades after his death, the “father of Afrobeat” Fela Kuti has made history by becoming the first African to get a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys. The Nigerian musician, who died in ...

Three occupants of a black Mercedes-Benz were heading to work on a good Friday morning. One was the driver, another was the aide, and their oga patapata. They came to crawling traffic on George Street ...

Record producer, Samuel Oguachuba, popularly known as Samklef, has claimed that Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is not the pioneer of Afrobeat as widely believed. The Molowo hitmaker alleged that Fela “stole” the ...

Christmas in Ghana has always been defined by music, and as culture and technology evolve, so does the sound of the season. What began with choir-led carols and hymn-based celebrations has grown into ...

LAGOS, Nov 11 (Reuters) - An exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti has opened in Lagos in Nigeria, marking the African debut of an event first developed by the ...

Nearly three decades after his death in 1997, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti remains one of Nigeria’s greatest musicians. Famous for pairing his music with human rights activism, he stood against dictatorship ...

UK-based singer, Rebecca Ward aka Becca Diamond, is making a bold entry into the Afrobeat music space, with aspirations to bridge cultural boundaries and redefine what it means to belong in the genre.

Nearly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, according to final federal figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the last two decades, the number ...

Back in the day, when Fela Kuti invented Afrobeat—and yes, unlike practically every other music to emerge in the 20th century, Afrobeat was indeed the creation of one person—the music served two ...

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 ...