The Malian music master, unplugged! Salif Keita returns on his latest solo album, So Kono, which translates as “inside the ...

Once again, Afropop Worldwide is thrilled to partner with the New York African Film Festival, one of the most extensive festivals of its kind in the world.This is the festival's 32nd year, and Afropop ...

Griots are having a moment. A griot is a storyteller who preserves and passes down history in stories and poems and songs.

Local freelance artist Braima Moiwai recently returned from Sierra Leone with a gift of a woven blanket designed for the ...

Goggans grew up in East Cleveland and the University Circle neighborhood/area knowing early in life that music, he played drums in his ... them to their African-American bondage origins, and from ...

Presented by Junubi Wyndham, it will cost nothing to immerse yourself in the beating drums, the bright colours of traditional dresses and experience the vibrancy, warmth, and richness of African ...

The scene includes an African Griot playing a forerunner to the banjo ... We even recreated an original drum machine beat that became the beginning of hip hop. ”And then, in post, with the mix,” he ...

New this year is a performance by Griot Drum Ensemble, which is dedicated to entertaining while preserving West African traditions through storytelling and drumming. Following their performance ...

Amid the global boom of Afrobeats and Amapiano, one may easily forget a generation of musicians who put Africa on the map ... the son of a Senegalese griot has been at the forefront of global ...