Music was an essential part of my family’s household when I was growing up. Our day-to-day lives always had a soundtrack. Sometimes, we washed dishes to American greats like The Supremes, Aretha ...

Burna Boy, Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. Afrobeats has dominated global dance music for the last decade or so. Many of us will remember how acts like P-Square of Nigeria colonised ...

For many years, Bongo Flava was largely driven by male artists, especially during its commercial rise in the early 2000s.While pioneering female stars such as Lady Jaydee and Ray C achieved major ...

She’s the first African woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award in a jazz category. She is also the first Rwandan or Ugandan to ever be nominated for a Grammy. And she is the first East African actor ...

Senegalese–Swedish duo Maher and Sousou Cissoko unite tradition and modernity through the ...

In 2021, Tanzania's Diamond Platnumz became the first Sub-Saharan African singer to receive 1 billion views on his YouTube channel. That same year, Zuchu became the first woman artist in East Africa ...

A couple of years ago, pioneer African music TV channel, Channel O hardly featured Kenyan videos. It was all a South African and Nigerian affair as East African artistes cried foul, claiming that the ...

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display ...

With more than 13 years in East Africa’s entertainment industry and a background in economics from Ardhi University, Alma Bronxi has built a reputation not only as a creative executive but as a ...