One of the movers and shakers in the Afrobeats movement, singer Mr Eazi, has gone dancehall on his club banger Dance Pon Me. The Nigerian artiste teams with Mixpak Records boss Dre Skull and Cadenza, ...

Nigerian dance culture has always been a force of rhythm, creativity, and raw energy. These dance moves turned parties into full-blown carnivals. You weren’t considered cool if you didn’t know the ...

Detty December turns African cities Accra, Lagos, and Cape Town into cultural centers for music, nightlife, food, and ...

Ofentse Pitse embodies a fierce sense of fun as she waves her conducting baton passionately in a dimly lit auditorium in Johannesburg, ahead of a one-of-a-kind show. The pioneering 31-year-old who ...

Growing up in Houston, Chinedu Ohalete remembers attending parties with his family on Bissonnet Street on the southwest side of town—the people, the community, the music, and most importantly, the ...

Janka Nabay, a singer, songwriter and bandleader from Sierra Leone who modernized an ancient tradition called bubu and carried it worldwide, died Monday in the Kambia district in northern Sierra Leone ...

In evaluating the art of dancing in Africa and the black diaspora, the African-American ethno-musicologist, Esi-Kinni Olusanyin identifies the dancer’s body as incorporating the sensibilities and ...

On a chilly October night, the dimly lit lounge of Rock Steady — a popular Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Midtown — is notably empty. Staffers are preparing for what’s supposed to be a busy night ahead.