Join Face2Face Africa as we share with you the top 10 African songs of 2025. The list is in no particular order.

The proliferation of smartphones and affordable, high-speed internet in Africa has facilitated the widespread consumption of music through digital mediums. African music spans diverse genres like ...

Mali-born singer Aya Nakamura has set a new record as the first African artist to hit one billion views on YouTube. Her song ...

Across the history of Nigerian music, female stars have held their own by delivering hit records that capture the depth of ...

Part of understanding African sacred music means thinking about its colonial context. It's the music of oppressed people combined with the music... Songs Of Africa: Beautiful Music With A Violent ...

There’s no doubt that African songs have taken the music industry by storm over the past few years. From dominating the billboard charts to being played at weddings and other events. Did you know that ...

In early September, Nigerian singer-songwriter CKay received a text message with a link to TikTok. Some of the app’s users had started recording a dance routine set to his song, “Love, Nwantiti,” ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

Through the University of Fort Hare, Akhona Ndzuta receives funding from the NRF. Apart from the song’s omnipresence on the sound systems of a cross-section of socio-economic neighbourhoods across ...

THE techniques and repertoire of traditional African music are handed down by word of mouth. There are skilled musicians who make music their profession. However, participation in music is generally ...

The Nigerian singer blends the personal and political into a new benchmark of Afro-fusion music. This idea of tracing all Blackness back to the wellspring is the crux of Burna Boy’s new album, African ...