Gambia’s Suntou Susso is a master kora player hailing from long line of Griots with an unbroken linage of 700 years.

On December 19, the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was announced. The honor goes to Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997. He joins an ...

The late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, has become the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The announcement on Saturday 19 December 2025 has put the late ...

If you’ve gone on an African safari, chances are you’ve heard of the Big Five, the must-see list of iconic megafauna. The term, coined in the late 1800s during Africa’s colonial period, refers to what ...

Describing the African-American influence on American music in all of its glory an d variety is an intimidating—if not impossible—task. African American influences are so fundamental to American music ...

Vol. 11, No. 1, THE THIRD WORLD AND THE PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN A CHANGING INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT (SPRING, 1994), pp. 304-335 (32 pages) Building on the success of collaborations with the ...

Around 8:30 p.m. on October 31, a group of policemen appeared in the Mjimwema neighbourhood of the Tanzanian city of Mwanza, where residents were running errands and drinking coffee. Without warning, ...

Ahmed Ibrahim Yousef, 75, helps deliver a baby camel to a malnourished and dehydrated mother in a village near the border with Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. The carcasses of animals that died from ...

Exclusive: South Africa will not interfere with US refugee program for white minority, email says U.S. and South African officials reached an agreement during a closed-door meeting in late December to ...