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Artists from the continent are breaking into the Western mainstream. We’ve got a playlist for your weekend cookout. By Desiree Ibekwe This week, The Times published a profile of Tems, a 28-year-old ...

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Legon Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 23 (2012), pp. 141-154 (14 pages) African Pianism is a style of piano music which employs techniques and styles used in the performance of African instrumental ...

The twenty-first century ushered in a new era in African popular culture. Hip hop, a popular genre of musical expression, which borrowed extensively from Western and African idioms and iconography of ...

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