When Western missionaries arrived in Africa in the 19th century, they disallowed the use of native musical instruments in ...

A CD series called Congotronics showcases urban traditional bands in Kinshasa, Congo. The first Congotronics CD was a hit in Europe and the United States, especially popular with DJs who work the ...

Salif Keita is known today as the "golden voice" of Africa, but in his youth he was an outcast, unaccepted by his community because he was born with albinism. Turning to music as an outlet, Keita rose ...

Sound Trek was formed through a collaboration between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Foundation for ...

Chisseko Kondowe is homesick, so he’s trying to bring the sounds of the African bush to South Florida. “I feel like I’m creating my own little tribe,” he says. Kondowe is the guiding force behind ...

Africa’s ancestral wisdom holds the seeds of its modern wealth. By valuing, protecting and commercialising traditional ...

Salif Keita has been called the "golden voice of Mali" and a pioneer of the music called Afro-pop. He was born of royalty -- a direct descendant of Mali's 13th-century founding father -- but was ...

Top film and TV composers discuss their latest projects. By Assembled Ada Guerin, The Associated Press Tyler Bates “While the film is set in 480 B.C., the Spartan people were sophisticated ...

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Hugh Tracey came to southern Africa in the 1920s to become a tobacco farmer but ended up compiling the largest known archive of traditional African music, recording performers from Congo to Zimbabwe ...