Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, has revealed in a recent interview that she is still on the hunt for a life partner despite ...

Other events include author Mindy Uhrlaub at Clio’s bookstore, and Woman Up Climbing fest at Pacific Pipe West.

Grammy-award-winning singer Tyla has made history in the Billboard US Afrobeats charts. The singer has been facing massive backlash online but she is still soaring.

Fela Kuti’s legacy plays out in music, in politics and even in food, with Nigerian restaurants paying homage to him on their ...

Akinfeleye says he's cultivated a close relationship with a number of Afrobeats artists, particularly Wizkid (pictured in Puerto Rico, 2022). Wizkid, who will be the focus of the photographer's ...

Burna Boy has apologised for comments he made distancing himself from Afrobeats. The Nigerian singer-songwriter is seen as a trailblazer who has helped to bring the genre to a global audience.

Afrobeats didn’t arrive until the 2000s, drawing inspiration from traditional Nigerian styles such as highlife and juju music along with modern hip-hop, pop and R&B.

Afrobeats is a word that's used to bring awareness to African-influenced music from collectives like the Flight Club, artists like Davido, Burna Boy, and Wizkid, and producers like P2J.

During Detty December, Afrobeats gets a sort of homecoming moment. With the genre making bold moves all year long, this is when the genre’s top artists come home to celebrate their milestones.

As afrobeats has fanned out of Lagos and Accra and into the global mainstream through diasporic hubs like London and Toronto, it is having a more intimate, familiar conversation with the islands.

"Afrobeats" is a new mash-up of Jamaican dancehall, soca, hip-hop and polyrhythms from Ghana and Nigeria. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ILEKE") TIWA SAVAGE: (Singing) It's Tiwa Savage - gospel on the beat.

In future, the Afrobeats chart will be published every Sunday at 2 pm via a weekly Spotify Official UK Afrobeats Chart playlist. According to Mark Strippel, Head of Programmes at BBC Radio 1Xtra ...