Our dear scholars in Africa remember everything about the 100-year colonial interregnum - the laws, the governance structures, the institutions - and promote them with religious zeal. Yet they forget ...

The evolution of vocal groups reflects not just the artistic expressions of their time but also the societal changes that ...

Singing as a form of communication is deeply rooted in the African American culture. It began with the African slaves who were kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic during the Middle Passage.

Over the last 30 years one of the very cool trends in the international music scene is the growing popularity of West African “desert blues”: music from the Sahel region that draws on some of the same ...