African music has long influenced genres worldwide, starting with the blues in the 19th century which has its roots in the music carried to America’s Mississippi Delta by African people forced into ...

Award-winning Ghanaian artiste King Promise releases “Melody,” his first solo single of 2026, marking a new chapter in a year ...

If Afrobeats were a dinner party, Nigeria might be the host, delivering invitations, setting the table, and getting credit for the playlist. But Ghana, with its ancestral ingredients: Highlife, ...

Kidi is one of Afrobeats’ biggest and brightest new stars. The Ghanaian singer and songwriter has become a worldwide phenomenon alongside his Afrobeat peers Wizkid, Burna Boy and Davido. His song ...

E.L, the Afrobeats singer and rapper, is picky about his kente. A fabric of the Asante people, one of Ghana’s largest ethnic groups, it has been handmade from silk and cotton on looms with painstaking ...

On Saturday night at the Purple Pub in Ghana's capital Accra even the pandemic and an official shutdown of bars and clubs can't stop the music. In the bustling Osu district, early revellers laze on ...

Stonebwoy has made a strong case for the undebatable influence of Ghana and its Highlife on today’s internationally acclaimed Afrobeats music. The singer-songwriter was responding to American rap star ...

It's Saturday morning, and Fuse ODG, fresh off a flight from Ghana, is wrapping up an appearance on Soccer AM. No slick, schmoozing Brit School graduate, he seems unused to the frantic banter of TV ...

The first thing Dee Williams noticed was that it felt like home. It was December 2019, and the Los Angeles-based photographer had just touched down in Accra, Ghana, for the first time. What she found ...

Shatta Wale (right) tells DJ Edu what fans can expect from his new album It has to be a testament to the power of Afrobeats that even Shatta Wale is embracing the wonder genre. Ghana's self-styled ...

In the mid 70’s one of the first African bands to win worldwide popularity was a Ghanaian oufit known as Osibisa. Their mix of African (especially Highlife) and Caribbean forms made them a sensation ...

On Saturday night at the Purple Pub in Ghana's capital Accra even the pandemic and an official shutdown of bars and clubs can't stop the music. In the bustling Osu district, early revellers laze on ...