Ivory Coast was going through a rough patch in the autumn of 2002. A failed coup on September 19 prompted civil war, forcing a schism between the country’s rebel-held north and government-controlled ...

Back when I did my Kuduro pt. II column I intimated that there was not enough Coupe Decale out there on par with Bablee, who at the time had just dropped a 12-inch on Radioclit’s Uppercuts imprint.

Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago. This week is dedicated to the explosion of coupe decale—uptempo madness ...

Fuelled by TikTok and street dance battles, the coupé-décalé offshoot is latest expression of Côte d’Ivoire’s pop culture ...

Victim of a motorcycle accident on the night of Sunday 11 to Monday 12 August in Abidjan, the Ivorian artist Ange Didier Huon – alias DJ Arafat – died from his injuries in a clinic in Abidjan, ...

Journalist Mory Touré seems to be talking about a hard-drug courier when referring to him. “He knew how to break down the borders of a genre that was Ivorian,” he says. “He was everywhere, no one ...