• Boima Tucker

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Every month, Hipsters Don't Dance send us their "Top World Carnival Tunes." This is September 2015's chart.

• Boima Tucker

• Matthew Joseph Greene

It will be Moroccans overseas that will give Gnawa music and culture an extra push towards the center of Morocco’s cultural identity.

• Devon Leger

Rapper Chino’o talks about everything from immigration to police brutality in the U.S., and the future of Somalia.

• Boima Tucker

• Maria Schmidt

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

The Gqom sound runs the gamut of township flavor until it teases Afro-house and eThekwini (Durban) groove without fully admitting to its Kwaito influence.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This Weekend Music Break, No. 83, features eighteen pop songs that can't be played on Nigerian airwaves. You can still listen on your phone or watch the videos on Youtube.

• Ananya Jahanara Kabir

‘Black Magic Woman’, by Azizaa, from Ghana, is a feminist reclaiming of the sacred from Christianity.

• Sabelo Mkhabela

The writer and musician Sabelo Mkhabela picks a selection of some beat tapes in his possession and writes about them for us.

• Boima Tucker

• Daniela Valero

There is a lot of ignorance about Afro-Latinos, despite the deep history dating back to the introduction of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance's monthly installment of "Top World Carnival Tunes" for July 2015.

• Pablo Medina Uribe

An interview with musician, Kevin Flórez, about how a music imported by West African sailors to 1970s Colombia became the soundtrack of his city, Cartagena.

• Rofhiwa Maneta

The producer and beatmaker, Tweezy, is behind many of 2014 and 2015's most successful South African hip hop somgs.

• Pablo Medina Uribe

The combined sounds of indigenous groups from northern Colombia with the drums imported with African slaves in Cartagena, once the biggest slave port of the American continent.

• Boima Tucker

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Boima Tucker