The Grammys have introduced three new categories: best African music performance, best pop dance recording and best alternative jazz album.

The “Boots on the Ground” line dance has quickly become an anticipated moment at African American gatherings, like family ...

The Lynnwood-based Washington West African Center hosted its third annual Sounds of Africa Festival Saturday at Garfield Park ...

Polish dance teacher and students deliver killer Amapiano moves that have South Africans offering to pay for live ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center will launch its “Mother Africa” season with the world premiere of “Afro!,” a new commission by ...

And finally, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.

Before slave trade to the Americas in the 1700s, dance and music were central to daily African life. According to the Library of Congress, music was weaved throughout death ceremonies, coming-of ...

The rhythmic beats of African drums and the sweet, nostalgic taste of palmwine will soon blend with the vibrant spirit of ...

The annual South African Amapiano Awards will be held on 2 April, a tribute to the growing stature of the dance music genre.

Bamba Tuesdays, a premier amapiano dance party hosted by DJ Kash, is one of the major players contributing to the rise of African music and culture in Atlanta. (Olivia Bowdoin for the AJC). Bamba ...

Simmons joined Duke in 1998, where he taught West African and Afro-Cuban music with a particular focus on the djembe drum and was also a collaborator in the Duke Dance Program.