News
28 Jan 2022
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially launched a study into music...
28 Jan 2022
Nigerian highlife singer Adekunle Gold has released a new single ‘Mercy’ ahead of his fourth album...
28 Jan 2022
Zimbabwean singer Gemma Griffiths has released her new EP A Girl From Harare. The nine-track album...
28 Jan 2022
Africa-facing music streaming service Boomplay and Triller have struck a reciprocal partnership to...
27 Jan 2022
American artist residency platform MacDowell is calling on interested artists to apply for its...
27 Jan 2022
South African artists GoodLuck , Shekhinah , YoungstaCPT and Msaki have joined forces on a new song...
27 Jan 2022
Concerts SA (CSA) is inviting music professionals in South Africa to apply for the 2022 iteration...
27 Jan 2022
Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg has announced the recipients of its 2022 Goethe Project Space (GPS...
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Features
21 Jan 2022
By Martina Meincken Tonewoods are wood species that possess certain desirable properties that make...
13 Jan 2022
It was in 2019 when Ghanaian Afro-roots pioneer Rocky Dawuni and I discussed his Grammy hopes,...
05 Jan 2022
A short while ago, the global music and entertainment marketing platform Linkfire announced its...
29 Dec 2021
The year 2021 was not spared from the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which crippled...
24 Dec 2021
This is part 2 of Music In Africa's Top African Songs of 2021 playlist. Read part 1 here .
23 Dec 2021
Another year has passed defined by COVID-19’s ‘new normal’. The year 2021 was a challenging one for...
Overviews
30 Jun 2021
Music industries are often a mirror of the society they exist in, and just as Egyptian society is a...
05 Mar 2021
Since the 1960s, the music industry of Liberia has been dominated and controlled by men, despite...
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17 Aug 2020
Liberia, a West African country of about 5 million people, is known for its cultural diversity,...
17 Aug 2020
This article looks at intellectual property (IP) law in Liberia, including its history, its...
17 Aug 2020
This article examines the relationship between the Liberian media and the music industry, with a...
17 Aug 2020
By Francis Muhire This text provides a brief overview of Burundi’s recording industry, specifically...
Reviews
28 Jan 2022
Although born into a family of kora players, Dawda Jobarteh did not learn to play the instrument...
05 Nov 2021
On his long-awaited third album Only One King , Alikiba flits expertly between nostalgic sighs and...
04 Nov 2021
The sweeping success of Fireboy DML ’s ‘Peru’ brings the singer’s Afrobeats intelligence into sharp...
29 Oct 2021
Having traded in the underground circuit for about a decade, it took grit and perseverance for...
26 Oct 2021
To paraphrase Frost, two roads diverged in the woods of grief. For her recent genre-melting duet...
21 Oct 2021
The genius of Tems ’ sound is that she boasts a singular vocal bend that allows her to wheel...
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Instrument Lessons
06 Mar 2019
By William Ramsay and Martin Lillich Keyboard is a very useful tool for understanding harmony, both...
06 Mar 2019
The video lessons included here are part of a series of tutorials on keyboard harmony. Read the...
06 Mar 2019
The video lessons included here are part of a series of tutorials on keyboard harmony. Read the...
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