Catch Kaleta & ZoZo Afrobeat performing at SRBBrooklyn in Brooklyn, New York. This 13-piece orchestra is lead by famed director Leon Kaleta Ligan-Majekodumi. The musician has recorded and toured with Nigeria’s Fela Kuti’s Egypt 80 band, King Sunny Ade’s African Beats, and more recently with American artist Lauren Hill.
Every February for the past decade, the island of Zanzibar has hosted East Africa’s best-loved – and now largest – music festival, Sauti za Busara. The festival includes artists from all edges of the continent, and from an ever growing scope of languages, musical genres and political stances. Kiswahili for [...]
Sometimes you come across a video online that leaves you stunned and questioning, “Can this be real?”. Today’s Video of the Week does just that. In the two minute video, the then 7-year-old Ghanaian boy named Nana Kyei (he should be a teenager by now as the video was first posted [...]
Pretty Yende, a 27 year old soprano from South Africa, who has been causing stirs in operatic circles from Europe to Australia, landed on the grandest stage of her life, at the epicenter of opera aficionados: she debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City this week. She achieved [...]
In honor of the start of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) on 19 January 2013, our very first “Video of the Week” post goes to: Sela Sela – The Official Afcon Song The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has chosen “Sela Sela” (Dance Together) as the official song of [...]
In Africa.com’s first “Blogs We Love” post, we present “Awesome Tapes From Africa“. The blog is everything its name suggests. Started by Brian Shimkovitz after a trip to Ghana, the former ethnomusicology major with a penchant for traditional music, amassed a stockpile of tapes while in West Africa. All of it on [...]
We at Africa.com love celebrating inspirational Africans. We’re especially proud of South African singer Lira, featured in our film ‘Africa Straight Up‘, as she prepares to perform at an Inauguration Ball held in honor of President Barack Obama. Check out exclusive footage from our interview with Lira.
BET Awards has launched a new category for Best International Act: Africa to meet the growing interest in covering hot African talent. Face2FaceAfrica covers the event.
Katie Fackler, a member of the Princeton in Africa program, is working and living for a year in Cotonou, Benin. In this post, she writes about seeing a Malian music artist, Salif Keita, in concert.
Toni Blackman, a hip-hop ambassador for the U.S. Department of State, recently traveled to Botswana on the Get Up and Go tour, and shares some of her experiences.
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