DAKAR, Senegal — To compete in the Francophone World Scrabble Championship, 32-year-old Elisee Poka spent five days in a bus traversing Africa's potholed roads. His competitors from France arrived by ...

MBALAX EXPLORATIONS San Francisco’s Sonny Smith improvises music with Senegalese musicians on ‘The Diving Kind.’ (Photo by Stéphanie Pfister) On his latest album, The Diving Kind, Sonny Smith of San ...

Nine years after the group’s last LP, the Basic Channel co-founder’s latest collaboration with Senegalese players is an even more spacious, psychedelic fusion of dub techno and mbalax drumming. No ...

Divine Ikubor wey pipo sabi as Rema win big for Trace awards as im win di album of di year award. Also, P.priime win producer of di year for di event wey hold on Wednesday night for di Mora Resort, ...

Di second edition of di Trace Awards don set to happun tonight, di 26 February, 2025 for The Mora Resort, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Organisers of di Trace Awards say e dey show di rich Afro music through ...

The Barclay label's Pascal Nègre had a hunch that rai could appeal to audiences beyond the North African musical "ghetto" and that Khaled, was the man to take it there. Khaled made music with the kind ...

Voting officially is officially open at www.traceawards.plus. The public vote accounts for 50% of the final decision and can make the difference in choosing the winners. The other half results from ...

In the early 1980s, Senegalese singer Youssou N'dour performed at the Africa Centre in London as part of a club night called the Limpopo Club. It was the first time mbalax, the dance music popular in ...

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Gambian singer Oumie Garba goes traditional on BoBess, her latest song which she recorded to Mbalax, a popular rhythm synonymous with West Africa. Oumie Garba, who has recorded a number of pop and ...

THE Music In Africa Foundation has confirmed the first batch of showcasing acts for this year’s ACCES music market, slated for Kigali, Rwanda, from November 14 to 16. The pan-African music trade show ...