BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Tamara Ebo says the area around her Devastation Dance Company and Academy is a “gym desert”. There is not a traditional fitness center within a 10 minute drive from the dance ...

The Redstone Room in Davenport is not typically known as a dance club, but it likely will be hopping next Thursday with the return of Chicago Afrobeat Project. According to the group's Web site, ...

If the “Fela!” review on this page has you in the mood for Afrobeat and reggae music, the season’s first Summer Dance at Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul on Thursday, June 14, is just the thing.

Tresor reflects on a decade of award-winning African pop, his groundbreaking collaborations with Drake and Hugh Masekela and ...

Lagos is set to witness a cultural homecoming as the Fela Anikulapo Kuti: Afrobeat Rebellion exhibition arrives in Africa for the first time. Originally designed and staged at the Philharmonie de ...

Wizkid, widely considered one of the most influential African artists of all time, has collaborated with Beyonce and Drake.

You wouldn't necessarily call NOMO a jazz group, though as a touring band it certainly could pass for one. A week ago at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, it carried a front line of trumpet, ...

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Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of an aortic aneurysm, his manager Eric Trosset confirmed to The Associated Press. In an influential career that spanned decades and continents, ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79. Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of an aortic aneurysm, his manager ...