Oliver Akinfeleye remembers Burna Boy’s first show in New York. The location was Palladium Times Square, the year was 2017. Akinfeleye, an American Nigerian photographer known professionally as ...

Starting out early with the Grammys wins of Burna Boy and Wizkid in the first quarter, the winning streak continued with Wizkid’s Tems-assisted platinum-certified single ‘Essence’, which seized the ...

To end the year, Audiomack has put together a playlist of the top 21 Afrobeats artists of 2021, based on their global streams. Inside Tyla’s “Chanel” Music Video: Every Iconic Chanel Look She Wore ...

Afrobeats is no longer a trend, it’s a full-fledged movement. Many of the biggest stars in the world are creating unique, fun, and creative Afrobeats music and it has everyone across the world dancing ...

If you had to pull up a starting point for the rise of Nigerian singer Omah Lay, born Stanley Omah Didia, you’d have to go back to 2020. That year, he began work on his debut EP Get Layd and one of ...

Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi jumps on new sounds as they emerge. He's documented the Cuban rap movement (2005's Inventos: Hip-Hop) and the fusion between highlife and hip-hop (2008's Homegrown: HipLife in ...

Afrobeats – the pulsating, fusion sound coming out of West Africa and the diaspora – has been on the rise globally for the better part of a decade. In recent years, the genre has gained a foothold in ...

A look at the relationship of Nigerian superstars with The O2 Arena captures the international evolution of Afrobeats. In the story of the international rise of Afrobeats, the United Kingdom played ...