Islam spread to sub-Saharan Africa around the ninth century, but many Westerners are only now realizing how deep-seated the religion is in countries like Mali, Mauritania and Senegal. Last month, two ...

“World music,” a term for music made by everybody who doesn’t happen to look or sound like us, is a “World music,” a term for music made by everybody who doesn’t happen to look or sound like us, is a ...

Pape Diouf is a master of Mbalax, a kinetic and irrepressible fusion of Western influences — soul, jazz, Latin, the works — with the traditional drumming of sabar, a Senegalese instrument once used to ...

We may be waiting for the weather to prove that summer is just around the corner, but the temperature of Chicago’s world music scene is certainly rising. Reggae, soukous and West African pop music are ...

In the 1970s, the musical environment of Senegal was ready for a revolution. Orchestra Baobab delivered. Combining a variety of established popular styles from Casamance, Ghana, Congo and Cuba, the ...

The Government of Senegal has accepted and undertaken to host the 8 th edition of All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA (www.AFRIMA.org) at a joint world media conference - host country unveiling held at ...

PIKINE, Senegal — On Senegal's peninsula, just west of Dakar, is a neighborhood that attracts hundreds of the country's most gifted musicians, artists and creatives. They all meet at Africulturban, a ...

There’s an interesting multicultural and even multi-species community event involving incredible live music and circus performance coming up on April Fools’ Day this year, the eight annual Karmic ...

When our country trudged forth into war with Iraq, hundreds of prominent actors, artists and musicians were quick to display some form of protest, be it a newly penned song, a heartfelt message on a ...

Music fans in Senegal can now access their favorite songs at the touch of a fingertip thanks to a brand new service. MusikBi, which bills itself as the first legal music sales platform in Africa, ...