The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

Analysis - Kofi Agawu is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on African music. The Ghanaian scholar, teacher and researcher has changed how the world hears and studies it.

The story is something out of a fairy tale for music fans. In 2007, Stevo Atambire, a kid from the streets of Accra, was hanging out in his sister’s banana shop. An odd-looking character, barefoot and ...

Mother Earth is in pain, and her people are to blame, according to a song by Josh Brew, a predoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia. Written with fellow Ghanaian musician and ethnomusicologist ...