People are drawn to Afrobeat music for two reasons, says saxophone player Leah Concialdi of the band ATOMGA: They are familiar with genre pioneer Fela Kuti and they enjoy Afrobeat's layered ...

London Afrobeat Collective are a tight-knit family of musicians from around the world, living in London and united by a love of afrobeat and a desire to take original music to new places. From Europe ...

Tiwa Savage, the queen of afrobeats and Nigeria’s very own, recently dropped Celia —her first body of work to come out on Motown Records. The 13-track project, which she titled in tribute to ...

Fela Kuti’s legacy plays out in music, in politics and even in food, with Nigerian restaurants paying homage to him on their menus.

In Ghana, the '70s was a time of political repression, high inflation, and funky pop music. A young British emigre named John Collins formed the Bokoor Band with locals in 1971. The Bokoor Beats ...

Ghanaian highlife and Afrobeat artiste Eric Opoku, popularly known as Ricky, has opened up about the reasons behind his ...

So, if the big cat and friends are going out for a night of partying in Wakanda, it’s easy to imagine them winding down to Afrobeat but also South African Afro-pop and amapiano, an eclectic ...

Chicago Afrobeat Project What Goes Up Self Produced, 2017 Chicago Afrobeat Project is the Windy City's answer to Antibalas. Both bands have forged gritty, multi-faceted musical blends with Afrobeat at ...

"For a long time, I’d been doing Afrobeat, but I didn’t dare," the Colombian artist explains. "I had a lot of ideas and colors stored away.

The Afrobeat elements are there on OKAY., but the beat isn't so much the direct focal point. With my sound, I’m doing Afrobeat in everything I do because that is my roots.

By Moses Nosike Nigerian Afrobeat rising star, Flexzy Joe has released a gripping new single titled “ALMAJIRI” under Jehu ...

Afrobeat has elements of many different types of music that had spoken to him through the years, from jazz, funk and soul to traditional African music. "But it all just came together with the ...