Discover why Fela Kuti lives on as a global icon. News explores the musical legacy and political activism of Nigeria’s ultimate Afrobeat legend.

In Nigeria’s capital, a rock musician is taking to the streets with roses and a guitar to remind people to slow down and feel ...

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West ...

Considered the father of Afrobeat, Nigerian musician Fela Kuti used his music in the 1970s to combat colonial values and brutal dictatorship. Former Radiolab host Jad Abumrad tells his story in the ...

Considered the father of Afrobeat, Kuti used his music in the 1970s to combat colonial values and brutal dictatorship. Podcaster Jad Abumrad tells his story in the series, Fela Kuti: Fear No Man.

A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B. Often boosted by social media, many of them ...

Tributes have been pouring in from across Ghana and the world since the death of Ghanaian highlife legend Ebo Taylor.Born ...

Veteran Ghanaian musician Ebo Taylor, a towering figure in highlife and Afrobeat music and a collaborator of Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, has died at the age of 90. Taylor passed away on ...

Ebo Taylor is dead. The legendary highlife and Afrobeat musician whose career spanned more than six decades, blending ...

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was honoured with the first Lifetime Achievement Award to an African musician at the 68th Grammy Award in ...

Baba has weighed in on the ongoing debate comparing Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with modern-day superstar Wizkid ...

Tyla’s Grammy win was met with mixed reactions, largely congratulatory but with others more critical, mainly from some Afrobeats genre enthusiasts.