Earlier this month, overzealous cops stopped the performance of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated reggae and dancehall artist Winky D in Chitungwiza, about 25km from the capital Harare.

In all the focus the Western world has placed on the individual, it has lost sight of the family—both immediate and extended versions, encompassing the members of a shared culture. In part that's due ...

Congolese rhumba musician Pitshou Lumiere says he now feels more Zimbabwean than Congolese after spending more than 20 years living and performing in ...

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe -- The crowd at the Large City Hall here had become a sweaty, tipsy, swaying throng by the time Oliver Mtukudzi played his most controversial song, "Wasakara." As he sang in his ...

In Jamaica during the late 1950s, Ska music emerged as a fusion of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. The energetic, uptempo sound became symbolic of Jamaica’s ...

Listeners who come to traditional African music from the American variety will find it a refreshingly organic experience. The sonorities reflect a variety of instruments both ancient and modern, ...

THE last decade certainly belonged to star musicians Simon Chimbetu, Leonard Zhakata, The Four Brothers, Thomas Mapfumo and the late great Leonard Dembo. These artists took turns to hog the limelight ...

Zimbabwean music legend, Zex Manatsa, has died. In a message posted on his Facebook page, his family said, “With great sadness we would like to let everyone know that our Father, Our Legend , Pastor ...