Fight scenes from shows including ‘Naruto’ and ‘Demon Slayer’ have been injected with the vocal urgency of Nigerian music, ...

Yannis Philippakis was one of the last musicians to record with the late drummer and Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen. Their collaboration was released as the five-song EP Lagos Paris London under Yannis & ...

The people loved seeing an Englishman in Africa 70. They couldn’t believe it at first. Oyinbo (white man) drummer! They would come and press money on my forehead. It was a mark of approval. It would ...

Lagos (AFP) – Sat comfortably in a large chair at the New Afrika Shrine, his family's legendary Nigerian music venue, Femi Kuti was surrounded by history. The concert hall is an homage to his father ...

Nigeria’s ever-expanding Afrobeat industry may have just discovered its next major export in the fast-rising musical sensation, Williy Young, whose real name is Williams Bayode. The young and ...

Trisyo and Supa Massie, the musicians behind rising Afrobeat group The Afroseas, look right at home among the recording equipment and sofas of their 12th-floor studio in Diamond Hill, in Hong Kong’s ...

On 18 February 1977 a thousand soldiers from the Nigerian army stormed a communal compound in Lagos that outlaw bandleader Fela Kuti had declared his own independent state: the Kalakuta Republic. They ...

Here's eight reasons to get out of the house and let live music cleanse your soul (or just have a relaxing night out). Hunter Burgamy and Georgia Parker play a free country swing show early Wednesday ...

The Philharmonie de Paris is devoting an exhibition to the king of Afrobeat. Produced in close collaboration with his immediate friends and family, it fervently conveys the Nigerian musician’s sense ...

If you were to bring a West African drummer together with a black person from Venezuela, they’ll be able to groove, and understand each other, even though they may not be able to speak to each other.