Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West Africa — for a generation.

Most people confuse Afrobeat and Afrobeats but don’t know that the two are predominantly distinct in sound and genre. Music historians have traced origin sounds of Afrobeat in Ghana and Nigeria as ...

Ghanaian highlife musician Aka Blay has stirred conversation in the music space after stating that Nigerians are the true ...

Yannis Philippakis was one of the last musicians to record with the late drummer and Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen. Their collaboration was released as the five-song EP Lagos Paris London under Yannis & ...

Tiwa Savage, the queen of afrobeats and Nigeria’s very own, recently dropped Celia—her first body of work to come out on Motown Records. The 13-track project, which she titled in tribute to her mother ...

In Ghana, the '70s was a time of political repression, high inflation, and funky pop music. Among the musicians working the clubs in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, was a young British emigre named John ...

Fela Kuti fathered the musical movement Afrobeat and its crown prince, 25-year-old Seun Kuti. The Nigerian singer is leading his father's band, Egypt 80. On his self-titled debut album, he's added ...

Afro B is one of the leaders in the Afrowave movement around the world. The UK native is on a mission to educate while simultaneously spreading the rhythm. Afro B is no stranger to the entertainment ...

Nigerian Afrobeat star Ruger is set to make history in Papua New Guinea with his first-ever live performance in the country at Sir John Guise Stadium on March 14th.

The Nigerian musician was a restless creator who embraced the physicality of drumming and innovated until the end Few musicians can claim to have invented a revolutionary rhythm, but then few are ...

The people loved seeing an Englishman in Africa 70. They couldn’t believe it at first. Oyinbo (white man) drummer! They would come and press money on my forehead. It was a mark of approval. It would ...

Thousands marched across Nigeria on Thursday over the mysterious death last week of an Afrobeat star whose body has been exhumed for an autopsy as authorities investigate the cause of his demise.