Afropop Worldwide spoke with a young Kenyan percussionist, Kasiva Mutua, when she was a member of the Nile Project. The Nile Project actually kicked off three years earlier, and as Nile Project ...

In the golden era of modern Ethiopian music, few voices carried the elegance, gravitas, and cultural resonance of Kuku ...

She’s the first African woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award in a jazz category. She is also the first Rwandan or Ugandan ...

Ethiopia is sharpening its focus on music and the arts as key engines of economic transformation ... As Ethiopia looks to diversify its economy beyond traditional sectors, investing in intellectual ...

Here are five unmissable cultural festivals that will give you a deep dive into Africa's heritage. Timkat is celebrated in ...

They blocked my number and refused to speak to me," said Tilahun, 46, a farmer in Ethiopia's populous Oromia ... make rugs, traditional clothing and jewellery. The modest salary "helps us provide ...

Coogler thus uses two forms of traditional music – African-American blues and Irish folk – as a way to illuminate the respective painful colonial pasts that the humans and the vampires share.

Gospel singer Erica Campbell reflects on her transformative trip to Ethiopia with World Vision s Chosen program, highlighting how being chosen by children deepened her faith, inspired her family and ...

Mulatu Astatke struggled for decades before his name became associated worldwide with a musical genre and he was finally born as the father of Ethio-jazz. "Ethio-jazz is a musical genre which puts the ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A traditional music duo who have collaborated for more than 20 years will perform at a chapel in Pembrokeshire. Accordion player Paul Hutchinson ...

She’s speaking about reviving traditional music from the past—specifically, in this conversation, songs honoring German student protester Sophie Scholl, who was beheaded in 1943 for ...