Grammy-winning Nigerian superstar, Burna Boy, has declared that the late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, is the only musician he considers greater than himself.The self-acclaimed 'African Giant ...

Africa’s creative boom is reshaping global entertainment — but without government funding, ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

The Lemonheads' world tour comes to Woodstock and Photay plays Assembly Kingston. Plus, Senegalese jazz by way of New Orleans ...

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

Not a whole lot of performances at Heinz Hall end with spectators, sousaphones, melodicas and percussion instruments spilling ...

One of the more surreal sights in the recent history of Test cricket was Steve Smith, who was then the captain of Australia, crying at a press conference when he owned up to complicity in ...

Archived course catalogs found online show that Polk State had offered the Introduction to African-American Studies course at ...

From Lagos to the Grammys, Nigerian singer-songwriter Tems has conquered the global stage without compromising who she is. “Authenticity is everything to me,” she says. “That’s the one thing I cannot ...

African music, dance and storytelling are coming to Leicester this October as part of Black History Month celebrations. Swahili, Congolese, Moroccan, Ethiopian and Eritrean performers will take over ...

From Beyoncé's The Lion King: The Gift to the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, Billboard rounds up 12 movie soundtracks that include original songs by African… By Heran Mamo African artists ...

(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...