The rise of post-independence popular music in Africa has unleashed a wide array of genres from many regions. A snapshot might show, from North Africa, Algerian Rai music, and street music like shaabi ...

Before the first note of the 2019 Marrabenta Festival finale in Matola was played a late-summer cyclone hit, sending the tents flying and causing the two huge LED video screens to sway on their ...

'The goats eat while they are leashed, so you have to keep the grass growing around the goat." These were some of the most relevant words I heard in Maputo - told by Rufus, the keyboard player of ...

Maputo — The Mozambican musician Dilon Djindji, considered by many as the greatest practitioner of the popular musical style, known as Marrabenta, has passed away at the age of 97. Djindji, who was ...