For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it ...
A festival-style Black History Month event honoring legacy, modern-day griots, art, music, and storytelling at historic ...
In the whole world of music, there is nothing more reassuring than the entrancing parade of waltzes and polkas that make up ...
Long regarded as the continent's living archive of history, identity and collective memory, African music is now at the centre of an urgent conversation about reforming and strengthening music ...
With $50 million to deploy and a first slate of projects set to be unveiled in March, Cook says the smart money should already be looking south.
Ebo Taylor has died at 90. He was a world-renowned musician and composer of African highlife music, but it took decades for ...
Copyright protection in African jurisdictions remains decentralised, which is good for national sovereignty but ultimately ...
As Black History Month gets underway, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is asking us to listen deeply. "People of African descent — no matter where we are, wherever we've been — we've been in, ...
In 1926, African American historian Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., issued a call for a weeklong celebration of African ...
In the digital age, social media has emerged as one of the most powerful tools for branding, advocacy and cultural promotion.
Bad Bunny's album "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" uses Puerto Rican genres that were created and developed by Afro-Puerto Ricans.
ISR hosted a jollof cook-off on Thursday evening, hosted by the African Students Organization in collaboration with University Dining.