In the winter of 2017, the African music scene was rocked by explosive comments about African countries emanating from the highest office in our country. In this political climate, it felt especially ...

Wesleyan University will celebrate Adjunct Professor of Music Abraham Adzenyah's 42nd year teaching the drumming musics of Ghana on Nov. 18. Professor Adzenyah is of the Fanti people from Gomoa Abosa, ...

The Hogbetsotso Festival, the "Festival of the Exodus," traces its origins back to the 17th century. It was instituted and celebrated for the first time in 1962 by the Dogbo Ewes of the Southern Volta ...

Dry savannah plains, tropical mangroves and sandy shores, land of warrior kings, West Africa is coming to the Lunenburg Public Library, 1023 Massachusetts Ave., starting Jan. 28. The cultures of West ...

In African villages, Infante-Amate said, Atumpan drums were not only used in a musical setting, but also to express the tones of proverbs, and to communicate messages and deliver important news from ...

“You’ve studied music, right? You play the drums?” Robert Levin asks as I sit down amid a group of University of Montana percussion students. I nod, nervously gripping the shaker in my hands. “OK, ...