All day Saturday, you can enjoy food, music, dancing and more at the 12th annual Charlotte African American Festival. The Uptown event celebrates the heritage and accomplishments of African Americans.

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

FLINT, MI — Since the age of five, Kevin “Baba” Collins has had some sort of instrument in his hands and had a hunger for learning about his culture and its history. “I’ve been studying music ever ...

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: Ah, no! My name is ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- To the beat of African drums, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai received her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, telling the audience of royals, celebrities and diplomats that ...

Katie Munro’s music classes at Balboa Elementary in north Spokane have a cadence set by African drums thanks to a $2,000 Making Music Matter grant from the Washington Music Education Association.

A Nigerian visual artist, Ajuwon Ajibola, and director of Ajuwon Art Gallery, shared a compelling experience on how the Ogun State Drum Festival—implemented under the Ibikunle Amosun-led ...

It's a setting you could find in Presbyterian churches all over the country: a generic beige fellowship hall with a coffee urn at one end and an upright piano at the other. But few others would likely ...

“Afroculture” is another reminder that Flavour is not only an entertainer, he’s a cultural ambassador. Flavour N’abania never misses when it comes to showing off African culture in his music. The ...