Nigerian singer Oluwajuwonlo Iledare, popularly known as Jaywon, has reacted to Billboard’s Top 50 Afrobeats list.Jaywon in his X handle, claimed that no song on the list has had more cultural impact ...

Fela Kuti’s legacy plays out in music, in politics and even in food, with Nigerian restaurants paying homage to him on their menus.

Ghanaian highlife and Afrobeat artiste Eric Opoku, popularly known as Ricky, has opened up about the reasons behind his ...

His five-track debut EP, “Get Layd,” also established him as an artist to watch in the Afrobeat scene. Lay won the Next Rated award at the 2020 Headies Awards.

Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat music legend Fela Kuti, performs in Lagos, Nigeria, on Nov. 29, 2013. Kuti was arrested after being accused of assaulting a police officer in the commercial hub of Lagos.

Tony Allen: The veteran Afrobeat drummer is shaking his sticks as hard and as brilliantly as ever The musician is back with a nationwide tour, a new album and a fresh collaboration with Damon Albarn ...

“It has Afrobeat as the base, the foundation,” he said. “And then you have a bunch of other genres sprinkled on top, just depending on the mood — hip-hop, R&B, reggae, dancehall, whatever.” ...

While we were filming, Tony said, ‘Afrobeat is the only major music genre of which you can still count the number of bands on your fingers—from Japan, France, to the U.S.—but that will ...

Afrobeat has elements of many different types of music that had spoken to him through the years, from jazz, funk and soul to traditional African music. "But it all just came together with the ...

Charles de Ledesma tells us about Afrobeat, the latest music trend in dance clubs in London. Afrobeat originated in Lagos, Nigeria in the late 1960s. It borrows heavily from American jazz, funk ...

These days, Afrobeat - an intoxicating mix of funk, jazz and traditional African music - is more popular in America and around the world than it ever was in the heyday of Fela Kuti, Femi's father ...