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Kingsley Adeyemi Olakunle, better known as Abami of Africa or Oluomo Balogun, is a Nigerian music composer and songwriter. He is widely recognised for his Hip-Hop Bata style with heavy influences of ...
Across the vast and diverse continent of Africa, those cultural roots were consistently and deliberately erased by colonial powers over a period of hundreds of years, yet the folk traditions of ...
Global sensation CKay breaks down the vibrant history of Afrobeats — from its roots in West Africa to its explosive rise on ...
For this month’s ‘Made in Africa’ column, we list the music from across the African diaspora we’re taking into the summer Made In Africa: Our Favorite Afropop Songs and Albums of 2025 So Far ...
Since the renewed interest in African music since the early 2000s, I think Western audiences have embraced the music much more widely and it is now part of people’s playlists among soul, ...
Join the Fort Dodge Public Library, 424 Central Ave., to listen to “Music of the West African Kora” at 6 p.m. on Monday in the large meeting room. Sean Gaskell features songs on the kora — a 21 ...
Music is woven into the fabric of Africa - from traditional song to cutting-edge hip hop. To celebrate the wealth of the continent's music, we present, in association with Songlines magazine, the ...
Friends of Music at St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church will present a concert featuring pianist William Chapman Nyaho at 7 p.m. Friday.
Debora Wondercheck was trying to process scenes of civil unrest in 2021 when she came up with “Gospel Voices of OC,” a production chronicling the lives of African Americans who helped build and shape ...