Blxckie and Cassper Nyovest release the collaborative track u must neva. The song is produced by Herc Cut The Lights, NINE2FIVE,  Thuso Johannes Morabe. Listen, stream, buy the track, mp3 download ...

Last year we saw a hint of what was to come. This year, however, we’ve had the genre’s promise come to fruition, blossoming to legitimately rival Afrobeats as the most popular sound in Africa. There’s ...

Kenya’s music scene has seen great changes since the colonial days, with many local singers finding fame through protest songs. One iconic example is the late Joseph Kamaru, a Kikuyu musician who is ...

For the past dozen years a South African balladeer named Josef Marais has been quietly building a reputation as a specialist in folk and children’s songs. He and his Dutch wife Miranda accompany ...

From Egypt to South Africa, The Africa Report invites readers to rediscover five legendary music hits that will never fade away… Umm Kulthum: ‘Enta Omri’, a song to advance Nasser’s brand of ...

Sisanda Nkoala receives funding from the National Research Foundation and has previously been awarded an AW Mellon-UCT Graduate Scholarship in Rhetoric Struggle songs, also known as protest music or ...

Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album, Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It's just one of the many ways he makes alchemy ...