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The music festival scene across Africa is reshaping live performance and nightlife: Here’s where to experience it

Africa’s festival scene is giving people a new way to travel the continent, one built around what is happening in music right now.
The Hill

The best African music performance Grammy is new. Its global appeal is not

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — From an electrifying and colorful musical performance at the FIFA World Cup to a new Grammy Awards category, African music genres and talents are reaching audiences and dance ...
Los Angeles Times

Tyla won the first African music performance Grammy. Now, ‘I really want people to go deeper.’

It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a one-off Balmain couture gown made of sculpted sand will ever forget it. ...

JustZAHipHop Highlights Growing Global Interest in African Music Genres

As African music continues to gain international traction, digital platforms focused on regional genres are attracting ...
Condé Nast Traveler

A Guide to Africa’s Best Cities for Music and Nightlife, Courtesy of Afropop Star Mr Eazi

Urban Africa is a love letter to the bustling African metropolises south of the great desert—Dakar, Kigali, Lagos, Addis Ababa, and Johannesburg, to name a few—that are dynamic, diverse, and more ...
The New York Times

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love South African Jazz

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...