The 31st annual South African Music Awards crowned the crème de la crème of the music industry at the Gallagher Convention ...

Tiwa Savage is the kind of personality who you can feel enter a room seconds before you actually see them. It's not just the ...

South African singer-songwriter Tyla continues her meteoric rise in the global music scene, achieving significant streaming milestones and setting new records. Her track “Push 2 Start,” released on ...

South African award-winning musician Thandiswa Mazwai swept four awards at this year’s South African Music Awards for her ...

The music industry has witnessed the meteoric rise of South African sensation Tyla, whose self-titled debut album has officially achieved gold certification. This milestone arrives as a testament to ...

While Gyakie is affectionately known as the “Songbird” for her sweet melodies, she might identify more closely with a night owl. Ever since she started making music in 2019 with her reggae-tinged ...

Explore the dynamic South African music scene of 2025, where artists like Jazzwrld, Thukuthela and Zee Nxumalo not only ...

During the 1990s, while serving as a resident artist at West Africa Magazine in London, I was approached by an individual from Italy seeking to contact renowned Nigerian Afro Pop artist, Ghariokwu ...

Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album, Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It's just one of the many ways he makes alchemy ...

The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African artist to get this Grammy honor.

Nigerian Afrobeats singer Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has taunted his colleague Davido after his album Morayo emerged as Apple Music’s most-streamed album of 2025 in Sub-Saharan Africa ...

George Folunsho Johnson (1916-1975) was born in Nigeria and earned the nickname Ginger due to his reddish hair and freckles. At 18, Ginger Johnson joined the Nigerian Navy, which took him around the ...