The Fader

Afro B sets London ablaze in the “Mad Mad Mad (Fiyah Dance) video

U.K. Afro-fusion fans might know South London-born Afro B as the host of Capital XTRA's primetime Afrobeats radio show, but he was an independent artist first, most notably breaking through in 2018 ...
WHYY

Philly’s great-grandmother of African dance, Ione Nash, has died

Ione Nash, 97, a performer and instructor who helped launch an African dance movement in Philadelphia and continued dancing well into her 90s, has died. Family members say Nash died in her sleep early ...
KQED

For the Ancestors: Bomba is Puerto Rico’s Afro-Latino Dance of Resistance

Editor’s note: KQED Arts’ award-winning video series If Cities Could Dance is back for a third season! In each episode, meet dancers across the country representing their city’s signature moves. New ...
Rolling Stone

Inside the Rise of Amapiano, the Genre That’s Taking Over South Africa and Coming to a Dance Floor Near You

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July-August issue of the magazine. At Afropunk’s 2019 New Year’s Eve festival in South Africa, DJ Moma was scheduled ...
The Conversation

The Angolan dancers who helped South African anthem Jerusalema go global

Ananya Jahanara Kabir receives funding from the European Research Council, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and King's College London. In the age of coronavirus, the #JerusalemaDanceChallenge ...