Longer reads on the scenes, deals and shifts shaping African music — the context behind the charts, across the continent and the diaspora.
At London’s new Apple Music Hall, the African Giant played to just 600 people and proved that his scale was never about square footage.
Announced on 5 November, THIS IS ME is planned for around 5,000 people, runs from dusk to dawn on 19 December, and tests how big Lagos’s Afrohouse moment can get.
Odumodu Blvck leads the Galaxy Music Awards and has a new single out, yet feuds and rants keep overshadowing the music. Is Nigeria’s most exciting rapper talking himself out of his career?
From Paris party flyers to an RCA deal, a Diamond Platnumz collaboration and a million-view mix: how DJ Phaphane became European amapiano’s breakout star in two years.
Asake’s In God We Trust World Tour ended with a third sold-out O2 in London and a Paris finale at Accor Arena featuring Tiakola, Blaqbonez and a surprise visit from his mother.
Asake sold out London’s O2 for the third time on the In God We Trust World Tour, with BNXN and TxC in support and a surprise Blaqbonez appearance on the eve of NOMADINHO: 4TH PRIME.
EXIT and P+US sold out Starlight Festival’s debut at the Giza pyramids and confirmed a 2027 return, as Cairo’s SceneNoise takes Egypt’s electronic scene to Amsterdam Dance Event.
South African DJs PriPri and Prito are remixing A.R. Rahman classics over log drums, and Indian playback star Benny Dayal has joined in with ‘Yaaro Neeyo.’
Morocco’s MOGA Festival is taking its oceanfront electronic format to Senegal, with a first West African edition at Maison CSS in Dakar on 20 November 2026.
Days after headlining an NFL halftime show at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Ayra Starr announced a 20-city Starrgirl World Tour across Europe, the UK and North America for 2027.
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Longer analysis and reporting: scene reports, deal breakdowns and interviews that do not fit the release cycle.
Yes. Signings, streaming economics, touring and festival programming across Europe and Africa.
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Staff writers and contributors based in Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Paris and London.
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