“It took a while for people to accept our music because we don’t exactly fit into any category.”

Prospect Park, Brooklyn was the place to be on Sunday August 3rd 2008, [click to watch video footage] - as popular African guitarists took the stage and wowed the listening audience with different sounds from Africa.
Here is a photo slide of the event:

The Guitar series was a seven hour [...]

Douye is a Nigerian-America singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Douye’s musical style is smooth jazz, soul, and R&B.

I remember getting the email that the long-awaited CD from the Afro-Diasporic Groovalicious Funkadocious group, Soulfege was out. Being a huge fan of Soulfege and knowing the political bent of this group, I wasn’t surprised to learn that the name of their new CD is , “Take Back the Mic” - a [...]

I am very proud of my heritage and it helps me set myself apart from others.

Although many know the enigmatic Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the late Nigerian Afrobeat maestro, as a talented musician who used his music to speak to issues in the Nigerian social and political realms, but he didn’t start his career as an activist. In fact, Fela started his career singing songs like this:

This rare footage of Fela [...]

James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo is a South African composer, arranger and choral director, and a Professor Emeritus of African Languages. He was born on June 20, 1932 on a Salvation Army farm called KwaNgwelu, in Natal. SAMRO, the Southern African Music Rights Organization, maintains a comprehensive biography which is the primary source for this post: [...]