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

Afrobeats is a true global 21st Century sound. A catchy blend of house, dancehall and hip-hop with its roots in African styles like highlife and Jùjú music, it emerged from Ghana and Nigeria in the ...

Nigerian Afrobeats star Rema is conquering the world. His latest milestone came this week when he wowed football legends, external at the Ballon D'Or awards just days after making history with Calm ...

It’s grown so gradually that you might not have even noticed how huge it’s gotten, but Rema and Selena Gomez‘s “Calm Down” has become the highest-charting hit from an Afrobeats lead artist in ...

The first thing Dee Williams noticed was that it felt like home. It was December 2019, and the Los Angeles-based photographer had just touched down in Accra, Ghana, for the first time. What she found ...

ENTERTAINMENT guru and record label founder, Obi Asika has enlightened Afrobeats musicians in the Nigerian music industry not to rest on their oars. The recent Afrobeats Hall of Fame (ABHF) inductee ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2Baba, Tiwa Savage, and Shatta Wale Most people confuse Afrobeat and Afrobeats but don’t know that the two are predominantly ...

Afrobeats finds its traditional roots in music created throughout West Africa and the diaspora. With strong ties to Ghana, Nigeria, and the U.K., Afrobeats has expanded globally through increased ...

Nigerian Afrobeats singer Daniel Benson, better known as BNXN, has shared his thoughts on the financial gap between professional basketball players in the NBA ...

If you needed proof that Afrobeats has found its way firmly into western pop culture, Eddie Kadi reckons he's got it. "I saw Burna Boy having a conversation with Elton John recently," he says. Once ...