Guinness World Records has officially recognised a concert staged by Dapper Live & Artists in Lagos as the world's largest ...

South African music executive Nota Baloyi has claimed Afrobeats owes much of its success to infrastructure built by South ...

With a fourth champ, Tyla extends her mark as the artist with the most No. 1s on the chart launched in April 2022.

With a fourth champ, Tyla extends her mark as the artist with the most No. 1s on the chart launched in April 2022.

Nigerian musician Joshua Iniyezo, popularly known as Solidstar, has criticized local music practitioners for an alleged lack ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emerging in the 2000s, Afrobeats is a popular style of West African music that employs polyrhythms and syncopation and draws ...

Nigerian singer Joshua Iniyezo, popularly known as Solidstar has spoken on the impact of afrobeats in the Nigerian music ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Music news every morning. In Accra’s Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, a statue of Ghana’s first president bears his influential words: ...

It's the new sound of the UK underground, reworking the African pop of Fela Kuti for kids reared on grime, hip-hop and funky house. With stars like Kanye West wanting in, just how big will it get? As ...

Breaking down the evolution of Afrobeats fashion, and today's defining trends, with some of the creatives behind the looks. By Nelson C.J This piece was created in partnership with Afro Nation.

Let’s set the scene. You’re out with friends, or maybe by yourself, at a local nightclub or day party, and the DJ on set gives a shoutout to the “Carribeans” in the crowd. They say something like, ...

While there's no codification of the history of the word "Afrobeats", especially when it was created, and by whom it was created, the term came to be in the 2000s when it was first used to describe ...