Emerging in the 2000s, Afrobeats is a popular style of West African music that employs polyrhythms and syncopation and draws inspiration from hip-hop, R&B, dancehall and more while incorporating ...

Growing up in Houston, Chinedu Ohalete remembers attending parties with his family on Bissonnet Street on the southwest side of town—the people, the community, the music, and most importantly, the ...

The Thiossane West African Dance Institute is bringing the sights, sounds and motion of West Africa to Ohio State this week. The Thursday, Friday and Sunday performances in Sullivant Hall will be ...

The academy also announced the best alternative jazz album award and is allowing all Grammy voters, who have limitations in the number of categories they can vote in, to put their bids in for ...

In many ways, makossa may have been the first dance trend of the 2000s because it spilt over from the 1990s. s segun akande Follow It’s hard to question why a nation of 160 million people would churn ...

Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King’s College London. The research underlying this article has been funded by the European Research Council and The British Academy. But ...

ATLANTA — Spelman students took community members on what they called a “herstorical” journey of empowerment through African dance. The Department of Dance Performance and Choreography at Spelman ...