The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop ...

A few of the stars of African pop's recent westward expansion. Clockwise from top left: Tyla, Davido, Ayra Starr, Wizkid, Rema. (Photos by Patrick T. Fallon/Shotbycozyy/Axle Jozeph/Leon Neal/Theo ...

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 ...

By Benjamin Njoku Ann Anthony, popularly known as Nurse Tonia, is finally answering a calling she set aside several years ago. Born into a musical family, Tonia’s dream of a music career was paused ...

The pressure on a second album is rarely about the songs. It's about the sentence that follows an artist's name for the rest of their career. For Tyla, that sentence was written by "Water" — the 2023 ...

When the South African singer Tyla took the Grammy stage to accept the first-ever award for best African music performance in 2024, it felt as if the stars had finally aligned for pop music of the ...