The South African musician spent a decade translating the centuries-old repertoire of the West African kora. He emerged with his a unique sound that isn’t restricted to the grid of the staff or the ...

Meet Sumana Chandrashekar, a writer, researcher and one of the few women ghatam exponents in the world who has spent years ...

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A video game released this week by a South African company features characters from the African continent whose objective is to reclaim artefacts looted by colonisers from Western museums and bring ...

Senegalese–Swedish duo Maher and Sousou Cissoko unite tradition and modernity through the ...

EAST Lothian’s libraries are tuning up for something new — a free musical instrument lending service launching on Wednesday.

The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, created during the Malian Empire by the Mandé people across regions including Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast. Picture a goblet ...

Singer Nancy Vieira from Cape Verde will introduce morna in Viljandi – a musical style included in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list that has not previously been heard at the festival. Vieira ...

Nancy embodied the Biennale’s theme through her work as a space for sonic experimentation and liberation from traditional ...

Copyright protection in African jurisdictions remains decentralised, which is good for national sovereignty but ultimately ...

PROFESSORS Adeoluwa Ayokunle Okunade and Bode Omojola are illustrious Nigerian scholars who are powerfully advancing African music on the world stage.Okunade, a renowned Professor of Ethnomusicology ...