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

Burna Boy, Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. Afrobeats has dominated global dance music for the last decade or so. Many of us will remember how acts like P-Square of Nigeria colonised ...

She’s the first African woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award in a jazz category. She is also the first Rwandan or Ugandan to ever be nominated for a Grammy. And she is the first East African actor ...

Dar es Salaam. Apple Music has announced Tanzanian gospel singer and songwriter Moses Luka as the newest artist to join its Up Next artist development program in East Africa.Speaking on the ...

A couple of years ago, pioneer African music TV channel, Channel O hardly featured Kenyan videos. It was all a South African and Nigerian affair as East African artistes cried foul, claiming that the ...

Following her high-profile signing to Universal Music Group East Africa (UMG EA) in March 2026, bilingual Afro-pop sensation ...

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In 2021, Tanzania's Diamond Platnumz became the first Sub-Saharan African singer to receive 1 billion views on his YouTube channel. That same year, Zuchu became the first woman artist in East Africa ...

African music has grown into a powerful global force, driven by artists whose consistency, creativity, and cultural influence have earned them widespread recognition. These musicians have collected ...