Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AKA performing in 2015, at the height of his fame. Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images The 35-year-old AKA was born in Cape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height ...

Tyla's mission is clear. She's setting out to change the geography of pop stardom. "It's something I feel like the industry is lacking," the singer declares. "An African pop star." Fresh off a year of ...

Ambassador Elajoe is an award winning rapper/producer, African peace ambassador and entrepreneur amongst other things. He is regarded as one of the pioneer figures who helped structure & project the ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2017 Grammy Awards are displayed at the Grammy Museum Experience at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The Recording Academy has announced three new categories to be added to the ...

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

AKA, South Africa’s most recognisable name in hip-hop, was gunned down – with his friend, celebrity chef Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane – outside a restaurant along Durban’s popular night spot Florida Road ...