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It’s hard for people from [America] to know what is going on around Africa. The media never allow you to see the reality, honestly. And that is a big problem," Moctar says.

The Kumasi Trio led by Jacob Sam (Kwame Asare) recorded the first Ghanaian highlife song, 'Yaa Amponsah', as early as 1928 ...

We spoke to Robert Randolph, The Teskey brothers, Taj Farrant and , Kanchan Daniel, about the past and future of blues.

Ifetayo an Afro-centric 1976 album by the unique Trinidadian Black Truth Rhythm Band is reissued by Soundway Records ...

A few years ago, the phrase 'artists direct' started to do the rounds of the music industry. The same thing now with ...

Ahead of SNL ’s 50th anniversary special, which airs on Sunday, February 16, on NBC and Peacock, I dug deep to find the best ...

The ArtsCenter in Carrboro is opening The Portraits of Resistance and Resilience Exhibition Feb. 14 through March 3. The gallery showcases quilting as a medium to honor African American women with ...

You can hear it on the record. With its bleating and reedy samples, insistent and nervy instrumentation, all-pervasive ...

Amid the swaggering bass lines and stuttering guitar riffs that underpin ... There are American influences in my music but there’s African culture behind it.” Taylor’s music was profoundly ...

Drummer, singer, arranger and composer, Rim Akandoh Jnr and his Amamere Band have over the last few weeks, been spending several hours daily in a rehearsal studio at Cape Coast in the Central Region, ...