If you travel through Africa and speak with musicians, you'll encounter various accounts of reggae's African origins. Perhaps only hip-hop boasts more claims of primal ownership on the continent.

Reggae has had a massive impact on the world and in Africa it was one of the biggest genres of music. Its greatest influences came from the early 70s with the likes of Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Culture ...

The concept of "Africa rising" has long lacked significance, and the idea of an African renaissance often appears as a lofty slogan without practical manifestation. However, recent political events in ...

Authors' fieldwork in Cape Town was realized as a part of the research project “Youth Music and the Construction of Social Subjectivities and Communities in Post-apartheid South Africa” led by ...