What Is Zimbabwean Music Today? Some Musings with Mudhara Danga
In this concluding article of a two-part series of articles, writer and scholar, Lennon Mhishi c...
Seun Kuti has returned with a third album of songs, in this feature and interview, ahead of a gig at London's Village Underground on April 2nd, Dele Meiji write...
This is now my life, this is what I do. I go where Zimbabweans go (when I feel it is safe to do so), and I follow where Zimbabwean music sounds. Friday the 21st...
In March 2014, Gateway for Africa interviewed Sudanese chanteuse Amira Kheir, about her latest album Alsahraa, her musical inspirations, methods, feminism and w...
The foyer could barely conceal what only a few minutes later would happen.
One thousand people filled the Barbican’s majestic theatre in order to listen to o...
New Release: Lion City by Dirtmusic
What’s Dirtmusic? According to the record label, borrowing from Tim Winton’s fictional character Luther Fox’s words: ‘Di...
Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade releases her much anticipated fourth album this month. Lovely Difficult is the artist’s most international album to date.
It'...
Photo credit: Biyi Adepegba
With the bass setting the foundation, the talking drums driving the music, and the guitar and saxophone adding the 'melodic juic...
'Finding' Fela is the kind of documentary that should be abysmal but isn’t; clearly a marketing conceit from the makers of ‘Fela: The Musical’ – it transcends i...
People of the City: Biyi Adepegba, founder of the London African Music Festival
How did you get here?
I worked with a wide range of people as a university...