Music
Festival au Désert: the Malian music festival in the Sahara that went into exile
The Festival au Désert, launched in Mali in 2001, brought Tuareg, Malian and international musicians to the dunes…
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Arts + Culture
Akan goldweights: the tiny brass sculptures that weighed gold dust and carried proverbs
For centuries, Akan traders weighed gold dust using small brass weights cast in geometric shapes and figures of…
Arts + Culture
The Kano Durbar: horsemen, emirs and centuries of Sallah tradition in northern Nigeria
During the Eid festivals, Kano and other northern Nigerian cities hold durbars, grand processions of horsemen in colourful…
Music
Maskandi: the Zulu guitar music born on the road between village and mine
Maskandi is a Zulu guitar music that grew among migrant workers travelling between rural KwaZulu-Natal and the mines…
Music
Abdel Halim Hafez: the Dark Nightingale whose voice and films defined Egypt’s golden age
Abdel Halim Hafez, born in 1929 in the Nile Delta, became one of the most beloved singers in…
Music
Tshala Muana: the queen of mutuashi who carried Luba rhythms from Kasai to the world
Tshala Muana, born in Lubumbashi in 1958, became famous as the queen of mutuashi, a dance rhythm of…
Music
Ernesto Djédjé: the Ivorian creator of ziglibithy who died at the peak of his fame
Ernesto Djédjé fused the rhythms of the Bété people with funk and Congolese guitar to create ziglibithy, the…
Music
AfroFuture: the Accra December festival formerly known as Afrochella
Afrochella, launched in Accra in 2017, became one of the biggest events of Ghana's December season, drawing diaspora…
Arts + Culture
The djembe: how a Mande drum became one of the world’s most popular instruments
The djembe, a goblet-shaped drum from the Mande world of West Africa, is played with bare hands and…
Arts + Culture
The balafon: the West African xylophone and the legendary Sosso Bala
The balafon, a wooden xylophone with gourd resonators, is one of the oldest instruments of the Mande world.…