Kofi Agawu is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on African music. The Ghanaian scholar, teacher and researcher has changed how the world hears and studies it.I am a scholar of ...

AFRIMMA festival will feature performances by African artists, food and African culture to Dallas on Sept. 12 with a daylong festival at Strauss Square.

Africa Inc. unpacks the multi-million dollar business of live music as we go behind the scenes of the Afro Nation festival.

A new collection of music from the remote African islands of Sao Tome and Principe is a revelation. This nation in the ...

Musician Remi Kabaka, a Ghanaian-born Nigerian, first landed in London in the early 1960s, flourishing in the expat community’s Soho club scene and performing at joints like Club Afrique, where ...

Pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, who died Monday aged 91, escaped apartheid-era South Africa to be discovered by jazz great Duke Ellington, becoming highly influential with a distinct musical ...

The other day, while checking out the various (and many) African internet radio stations on Radio Garden, I zoomed over to Congo and discovered Radio Digital Congo/Radio Okapi (digitalcongo.net), ...

This post was updated May 22 at 9:43 p.m. Community and tradition inspire the performers of the Old-Time String Band and African American Music Ensemble. Each class of musical performers has shared a ...

CNN’s Adefemi Akinsanya breaks down the landmark agreements that put the African music industry on a fast track to global success.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Some church leaders are criticizing a British musicians’ charity group raising funds for the West African Ebola crisis, saying its new single reinforces negative stereotypes of Africa ...

DAKAR, Senegal - Portions of the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Band and Chorus recently finished a tour filled with cultural exchanges in the western most part of Africa. Members of the band’s Alliance ...