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Sunny Adé is celebrated as the King of Jùjú music.
Among contemporary African musicologists, Agawu has been one of the most distinctive voices over the past half-century.
Zed Beats artists aren’t known for political songs, but they’ve become so popular that they’re used to mobilise voters during elections.
Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.
In exile, he imagined a different Africa in his music, while being exposed to new realities abroad.
The song was written hot, as the news of the massacre reached the world. Its creators spanned the continent.
He wanted to be a writer, but believes he’ll get his message across more easily through music.
One of ten young Malian musicians chosen to study in Cuba, he would pioneer his own brand of African salsa.
Nigerian pop stars are often accused of singing about love and money and ignoring social issues. Falz isn’t one of them.
His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.
Fela Kuti’s legacy plays out in music, in politics and even in food, with Nigerian restaurants paying homage to him on their menus.
Kippie Moeketsi knew how to play the blues. But his blues was shaped by multiple musical influences.
With a story as harrowing as the times he lived in, he was a singular voice in the country’s rich jazz history.
What was once just a cultural moment has become a powerful economic engine of cultural tourism.
Exiled for much of his career, he was acknowledged universally as a pioneer and a leading light of the international free jazz scene.
The famous blind couple, Amadou & Mariam, helped take Mali’s rich musical traditions to a new global audience.
Women only really emerged in Tunisia’s male-dominated rap scene with the revolution in 2011. And they’re rapping about much more than just patriarchy.
Rashid Vally gave voice to the new Black jazz of the 1970s through his record label As-Shams, named by pianist Abdullah Ibrahim.
Stein’s memoir Moving Music is as colourful and compelling as the famous artists he toured with.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Professor emeritus of music, SOAS, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Musicology, University of South Africa
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Professor Emeritus, Social Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow, Rhodes University
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Fellow, King's College London
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Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Artist in Residency, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer, University of Fort Hare
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Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
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Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of Minnesota
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Lecturer, Makerere University