At the 1978 Berliner Jazztage, Fela Kuti did not simply perform; he staged a political, spiritual and musical confrontation ...

The people loved seeing an Englishman in Africa 70. They couldn’t believe it at first. Oyinbo (white man) drummer! They would come and press money on my forehead. It was a mark of approval. It would ...

Afrobeat sensation Dalyboy is capturing the hearts of music lovers with his latest release, ‘Obim,’ a soulful Afro-love anthem that ...

From a Canadian Embassy partnership in Lagos to stages in New York, Atlanta, Winnipeg, and Toronto, the Afrobeat pioneer is building a diplomatic cultural movement that governments are taking ...

Nigerian musical deity and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti was not born to live an ordinary life, and he knew it. In his biography by Carlos Moore, Fela stated that from the moment he drew his ...

Trisyo and Supa Massie, the musicians behind rising Afrobeat group The Afroseas, look right at home among the recording equipment and sofas of their 12th-floor studio in Diamond Hill, in Hong Kong’s ...

Seun Kuti is the youngest son of legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Now the Nigerian musician is set to play two shows in ...

Music was invented/discovered. About 60000 years passed and these Nigerian geniuses Fela and Tony came to LA and fell in love with Black American Music, so they fused it with High Life and Yoruba ...

The Philharmonie de Paris is devoting an exhibition to the king of Afrobeat. Produced in close collaboration with his immediate friends and family, it fervently conveys the Nigerian musician’s sense ...