Keeping Afrobeat decolonial in Buenos Aires
One bandleader's quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.
One bandleader's quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.
In Colombia, doing straightforward political music carries many risks, including confronting state repression, political armed rebellions, and organized crime.
In the third installment on Afrobeat in South America, political scientist Simon A. Akindes writes about Newen Afrobeat from Chile’s capital.
In the second of five articles on Afrobeat music in South America, political scientist Simon Akindes writes about the all women and nonbinary Brazilian band, Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra.
In the first of five articles on Afrobeat in South America, Simon Adetona Akindes discusses Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra and Bixiga 70 from Brazil.
Nigerian band VILLY & The Xtreme Volumes wants to open the world's eyes to the political and social realities of the continent through a catchy and danceable repertoire.
Brazilians may have produced the first ever afrobeat.
Africa is everywhere on "Landing on a Hundred," the new album by American guitarist and singer, Cody ChesnuTT. It's in the instrumentation, the arrangements and in his voice.
Youngsta built a reputation on doing “straight up Cape Town hip hop,” but his recent output suggests he is now appealing to mainstream audiences.
Youtube is streaming all of the 44-odd minutes of Blitz the Ambassador’s second studio album, “Native
The New York Times' chief theater critic, surprise, misses the point about the musical, "Fela!"
Fela's AIDS diagnosis and denialism was fairly well known and an open secret.