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 ...

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 ...

Dakar, Senegal – In the lively neighbourhood of Medina in Dakar, horse-drawn carts jingle around crowded buses and makeshift stalls sell everything from clothes to mobile phones. In a narrow alley, ...

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, ...

Abdou Mboup's skills as a percussionist and kora player have led to collaborations with the likes of Johnny Clegg, Claude Nougaro, Nina Simone and Michel Pettruciani. After 25 years in the U.S. he's ...

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 ...

The world festival of black arts is planned for Dakar, Senegal, in December. It last was held in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977. The three-week festival has been rebranded the World Festival of Black Arts ...

To the ever-growing litany of unconventional public-health campaigns (sexy cancer advertisements! film festivals about excrement!) you can add one that even Simon Cowell might love: an American ...