The Djembe: From West African Villages to Global Stages The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, created ...

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. ...

Since black music didn’t start here in the United States during slavery, it makes sense for the study of the art form to reach across the Atlantic to its roots in Africa. This is what Ghana-born ...

Global superstar Burna Boy claimed the prestigious Album of the Year award for his latest work No Sign of Weakness.

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 ...

Burna Boy, Rema, and other Nigerian stars dominated the 9th All Africa Music Awards in Lagos. See the full list of winners.

Halmblog Music’s mission extends beyond technology — it’s a movement advocating for fair representation and artist-first ...

African girl remains the most vulnerable in the current society, despite numerous global interventions that have been put in place to extricate them. Discrimination against girls in Africa is deeply ...