15 Aug 2022
South African artist and member of kwaito group TKZee Tokollo ‘Magesh’ Tshabalala has died after...
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15 Aug 2022
Music Crossroads Zimbabwe and Nhimbe Trust have signed a partnership agreement designed to report...
15 Aug 2022
The organisers of the Ghana DJ Awards have announced a call for entries for its Greatest Playlist...
15 Aug 2022
Artists, cultural professionals, arts organisations, networks, academia and all who care about the...
12 Aug 2022
The Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) invites aspirant female stage managers based on the African...
12 Aug 2022
Global music streaming service Spotify has unveiled a new dedicated website which offers fans pre-...
12 Aug 2022
Réunion-based, Botswana-born rapper Danielle Swagger has released a music video titled ‘I’m Dazed’.
12 Aug 2022
Submissions are currently ongoing for Nigerian singer Adekunle Gold ’s #My5StarStory challenge.
Reviews
08 Aug 2022
It is, perhaps, hardly your fault that you have never heard of Ghana’s Ayisi until this article...
29 Jul 2022
In the years preceding his TikTok hit ‘Sugarcane’, Camidoh’s ingenuity seemed obscure to audiences...
29 Jul 2022
The Nigerian music scene is a wasteland of joy and optimism. You have girls, alcohol, sex and more...
14 Jul 2022
Now that he has a Grammy win on his CV, Burna Boy tenders a reprint of the persona from before his...
11 Jul 2022
By Gwen Ansell South African poet Lesego Rampolokeng often writes about Black music in his poems...
28 Jun 2022
By Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk Ana Sofia Fonseca’s feature documentary Cesária Évora opens with hand-held...
Features
12 Aug 2022
By Sanya Osha Nigerian Afrobeats star Burna Boy burst onto the global stage in 2018 with a slew of...
11 Aug 2022
By Charles Maganga Since its inception in 2018, Ongala Music Festival (OMF) has grown to become one...
08 Aug 2022
South African non-profit organisation Turquoise Harmony Institute (THI) will host the 2022 edition...
03 Aug 2022
Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message” in his 1964 book Understanding Media...
02 Aug 2022
According to social media discussions, Zimdancehall is falling into oblivion just like urban...
02 Aug 2022
Before his appointment as Sony Music West Africa (SMWA) head of operations in 2019, Oluwaseun ‘...
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