“Ouidah, Benin – September 1, 2012: Local men singing and playing drums and other instruments at small traditional village party. This event was a free performance for people who live in neighborhood.

From Lagos to London to Los Angeles, a new style is taking dance clubs and music charts by storm. Chances are, you’re already familiar with the sound, even if you haven’t heard the name. Afrobeats, a ...

One instrument commonly used in Afrobeats production that seems to be getting on the nerves of Ghanaian audio engineer Kofi Boachie-Ansah, known in the entertainment world as Beatmenace, is the solo ...

Afrobeats rode on its own generated zeitgeist to become a staple of the global cultural marketplace. How does it negotiate a bigger piece of the pie? Afrobeats - not to be confused with Afrobeat - ...

African music, like Latin music, has always placed in the ‘World music’ section of most streaming sites, meaning that the scene is too often misunderstood as being one sound. Well, that was never the ...

Scene's biggest names include D'Banj, Atumpan, Wizkid, May7ven and R2Bees Step into any of the countless nightclubs in Lagos and you’re bound to find yourself immersed in a sonic journey of pulsating ...