Apple Music doesn’t share numbers publicly that often, so when it does, they’re generally significant. So check this: according to Apple, streams of African tracks on Apple Music have grown at a rate four times that of overall streams on the service. We think that’s...
Crowned Best Group in Africa and touted as the giants of East African music: Sauti Sol (Kenya) release brand new single MELANIN featuring World Best Patoranking from Nigeria. Co-written by the talented Kenyan songwriter and singer: Nviiri The Storyteller and produced...
For a limited time the African Choir Re-Imagined is on at the Iziko South African National Gallery, in Cape Town until Sunday 12 November, 2017. This contemporary sound-image installation based on the African Choir’s first tour to Victorian England in 1891 is...
For understandable, but not necessarily justifiable reasons, Sub-Saharan Africa has been the scourge of the international recorded music industry for decades. Africa is a vast continent that has delivered comparatively little financially in return for...