Had Paich written the song about a place that has been oppressed ... We should blame what happened with Toto's "Africa" as much on ourselves as on the band. Does that make us racist?

The song put Weezer on the singles charts for the first time in nearly a decade. “Africa” is credited to Toto keyboardist/vocalist David Paich and the late drummer Jeff Porcaro, as Porcaro’s ...

Toto's beloved 80s jam "Africa" inspires universal adoration ... unsurprising given Paich had never visited when he wrote the song, and got an imagined version based off what he'd read in National ...

“Africa” is on their fourth studio album Toto IV and has been covered ... outsider view of the meaning of the song.” The song was written by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro and Porcaro has ...

So, they did, with "Toto IV," in 1982, recording nine songs for the album. They just needed one more. The last one added: "Africa." All these years later, "Africa," streamed more than a billion ...

Rob Smith: I’m partial to the Weezer version of “Africa,” because I think the song and the performance are closer to what Weezer do best than “Hash Pipe” is to what Toto do best.

Toto’s Steve Lukather has some mixed feelings about the band’s 1982 song, “Africa.” Lukather ... David Paich and Jeff Porcaro wrote the lyrics, which have been widely criticized over ...

Rob Harvilla, music critic for the Ringer, knows he must do what is right and help us understand the strange afterlife of Toto's "Africa." (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "OCEAN TO OCEAN") PITBULL ...

"Oddly, listening to Toto’s 'Africa' in a mall seems to trigger some fundamental human emotion," Tolentino wrote, before going on to say: "Hearing a song you love when it’s playing from ...

Toto’s “Africa” has come home, so to speak, thanks to an installation by an artist who plans to play the song on loop in a Namibian desert – for eternity. German-Namibian artist Max ...

Songwriter and keyboardist David Paich wrote the famous piano ... Today, the first song that comes to mind when we hear Toto is “Africa,” released in 1982. But “Hold the Line” was their ...

the Toto jam will echo throughout the unforgiving 55 million-year-old sands “for all eternity.” “[I] wanted to pay the song the ultimate homage and physically exhibit ‘Africa’ in Africa ...