Music
The Grammy for Best African Music Performance: how African pop got its own category
In 2023, the Recording Academy announced a new Grammy category, Best African Music Performance. At the first presentation…
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The featured-verse economy
Why the guest verse is currency in African music: the remixes that made careers, the hook specialists, and…
Music
Fifteen albums to start with if African music is new to you
New to African music? Fifteen albums, from Burna Boy and Wizkid to Kabza De Small, Sauti Sol and…
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The album is back in Afrobeats
Burna Boy, Wizkid, Asake, Rema and Tems have turned the album back into an event. Why Afrobeats stopped…
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Black Sherif and the year he stopped explaining himself
From the Sermon freestyles to Kwaku the Traveller and The Villain I Never Was: how Black Sherif made…
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Angélique Kidjo beat Burna Boy to a Grammy in 2020 and told the world he was next. A year later he won
At the 2020 Grammys, Angélique Kidjo won Best World Music Album over Burna Boy's African Giant and used…
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How Burna Boy and His Mother are Revolutionizing African Cinema with an Unprecedented Project
Spaceship Films, co-founded by Nigerian musician Burna Boy and his mother, Bose Ogulu, is one of the international…