“Noirwave” creator Petite Noir returns with a brooding new album, Mother/Father, that grapples with his relationship with God before embarking on his upcoming Europe/UK tour.

There is no one African rap, there are hundreds. There are as many rap scenes as there are countries and languages on the continent. All over Africa, rappers and beatmakers are taking the codes and […]

Each week in our Pan African Rap playlist, discover the latest and greatest rap from across the African continent and its diaspora.

“Rolling with” her sister Sampa The Great, the Zambian-born artist drops a new Afrofuturist inspired video.  Following “The Divine” released in 2019, Mwanjé’s “Wildones” is only her second single and video. Joined by the notorious […]

Join Sampa The Great, Thandiswa Mazwai, Stogie T and others this Saturday at Constitutional Hill!  Win one double ticket for Bassline Fest I AM HERE by sending your name and surname to [email protected], with “Bassline […]

With his posthumous album, There Is No End, the legendary Afrobeat drummer continues to inject rhythms into our lives exactly one year after his passing. On April 30, 2020, Tony Allen left us. This former […]

The Return will be out on Ninja Tune on September 13th and will feature the formerly released singles “OMG” and “Final Form”. Following her 2017 mixtape Birds and the BEE9, that earned her an Australian Music Prize, the Zambia-born, Sydney-based […]

“Final Form” is Sampa’s first offering for 2019, a funky song inspired by classic hip-hop, sampled from 70’s band The Sylvers. Sampa The Great is a Zambian artist and singer-songwriter who expresses herself through music […]