As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture.

Nigeria’s music industry continues to evolve, producing globally recognized talents who push the boundaries of Afrobeats, street-hop, and alternative sounds. In this year, 2025, a new wave of artistes ...

The Djembe: From West African Villages to Global Stages The Djembe: From West African Villages to Global Stages (Image Credits: Flickr) The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

(Adebayo Ayodeji / Drummer) "We are using this to revive our culture, our cultural values. Most of them, they’ve not seen this kind of drum before, they’ve not played it before and this is an ...

Read the first part of this series on the pioneers of Igbo highlife music here. Igbo highlife provided comfort and hope for the Igbos, an ethnic group living mainly in southeastern Nigeria, after a ...

The 2025 Grammy Awards were a defining moment for Nigerian music, as Tems made history by winning her second Grammy. This achievement not only celebrated her extraordinary talent but also highlighted ...

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