Morgan State University has become the first HBCU to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale with “ReCall & Response, ...

Recently, Nigerian vocalist, Ayra Starr, the celestial voice behind the song ‘Rush’ was named Best International Act at the ...

On June 13 the sad news arrived that legendary South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo had passed away after a long illness ...

By the early 2000s, Bongo Flava was no longer an experiment—it was a movement. Its infectious rhythms, Swahili wordplay, and ...

TANZANIAN dance music is not dead. It's just very, very tired, broke, and forgotten, somewhere in the corner of a dusty bar in Buguruni, sipping warm beer and wondering how it all went so wrong.Once ...

Sly Stone was more than a hitmaker—he was a prophet of rhythm, a master of contradiction, and a pioneer of what music could ...

Bongo refers to a large, forest-dwelling antelope found in the rainforests of central and western Africa, known for its ... high-pitched drums played with the hands, often used in Afro-Cuban ...

djembe (African drum), bongo, xylophone and others,” said Leow. “Each musician has found a way to craft unique compositions that express their artistic identity,” said Leow. These emerging ...

The museum's collection also includes some textiles and decor made in Africa, small bongo drums, and matching adult and child dashikis in red cotton fabric with bright green embroidery.

Matthew McConaughey recalled how his mother, Kay McConaughey, supported him after he was arrested for playing bongo drums while naked ... listen to the beautiful African melodic beats of Henri ...