Following the rising global appetite for 'Afrobeats' music, a form of music that encapsulates African indigenous rhythms fused with foreign elements such as funk and so on, it is no doubt that Africa ...

Do you do the Shaku Shaku? Zanku’s legwork? How about a throwback: the Galala, anyone? The West African musical genre — Afrobeats — has thousands of distinctive steps and moves that can be learned ...

African music, like Latin music, has always placed in the ‘World music’ section of most streaming sites, meaning that the scene is too often misunderstood as being one sound. Well, that was never the ...

African music has long influenced genres worldwide, starting with the blues in the 19th century which has its roots in the music carried to America’s Mississippi Delta by African people forced into ...

A new festival happening in Virginia Beach this weekend gives people a chance to get in on a cultural movement reaching across the globe. The Tidewater African Cultural Alliance will host its first ...

A new compilation of this hybrid Nigerian dance music—popularized in the U.S. by the likes of Drake and Diplo—shows that with Afrobeats, there’s much more than one dance. Save this story Save this ...

SoundCloud has marked the end of the year by highlighting its top 10 scenes that shook up the platform in 2022. With more than 320 million tracks, it has often been the place where music movements ...

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