When Western missionaries arrived in Africa in the 19th century, they disallowed the use of native musical instruments in ...

Nigeria’s music industry continues to evolve, producing globally recognized talents who push the boundaries of Afrobeats, street-hop, and alternative sounds. In this year, 2025, a new wave of artistes ...

(Adebayo Ayodeji / Drummer) "We are using this to revive our culture, our cultural values. Most of them, they’ve not seen this kind of drum before, they’ve not played it before and this is an ...

The African Children's Choir will perform at a local church in the coming days. The choir made up of children ages 8 through ...

Five years ago, at just 17, P.Priime emerged as one of Nigeria's youngest music producers, quickly grabbing headlines as he ...

Raised in the village of Tchintabaraden in rural Niger, Mdou Moctar learned to play music on a guitar he made himself. It had five strings because the plank of wood he used for the fretboard was too ...