COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A group of Central Ohio children got a taste of West African music, dancing and drumming on Friday. The Columbus Metropolitan Library invited kids aged 7-11 to celebrate ...

Music correspondent Kirsten Zemke looks at the genre of Afrobeats, an umbrella term which covers various contemporary West African pop music packaged for a global audience. She'll play a track from ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor devotees are working to revive his music and legacy coinciding with the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Senegal has its acclaimed Saint-Louis Jazz Festival and Dak’Art Biennale, Burkina Faso’s mammoth film festival, FESPACO, while Benin’s return to ancestral art and Cote d’Ivoire’s resurgent nightlife ...

Located around the tri-border meeting point of Mali, Ivory Coast, and Guinea, the Wasulu region is home to one of the most unique confluences of culture and identity in West Africa. Renowned for ...

Thinking back on the biggest cultural moments of 2024, it’s hard to ignore the many African women who were at the center of it all. Over the past decade, global African music has been dominated by ...