The murder of rapper Dolla reverberated throughout the music industry on Tuesday as police sought a motive for the brazen ...

The Magnetic World Music Festival is filling out its fifth-anniversary lineup, and Saturday night just got a lot bigger. The festival announced today that Akon and Ne-Yo will co-headline September 26, ...

Award-winning musician and philanthropist Akon is about to build a new sustainable city in Senegal. He told Reuters why ...

Nathalie Kouassi Akon joined IFC as Director of Gender & Economic Inclusion Department in September 2023. Nathalie, an American and Ivorian national, was earlier the Executive Director at Mastercard ...

Tyla never cared for the narrow definitions of African music, and her new album, A*Pop, reflects that. Speaking to Apple ...

South African star Tyla releases sophomore album APOP*, a 14-track project asserting that amapiano sound belongs at the very ...

Pana' a one-of-one record in Nigerian music, which highlighted the dynamism of a star who can combine sensuality, infectious rhythm, and cultural relatability to craft a hit that recalibrated the ...

Long gone are the days when African artists made music simply to chase hits. Something more intentional is unfolding across Lagos, Accra, and the cities in between. Artists are pulling the sound in ...

A newly restored 1979 documentary examines how Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub-infused poetry documented the challenges faced by Britain’s Black Caribbean population. By Patricia Meschino See more of our ...

The woman and girl child of African descent embodies strength, resilience, and untapped potential, yet they remain among the most marginalized groups globally due to the intersection of racial, gender ...

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