Amaarae’s third studio album, “Black Star,” dropped on August 8, 2025, into an already crowded year for African pop. Within days, it became one of the most talked-about drops on social media and in the music press, not because it was charting, but because it spread across cities, genres, and identities. Recorded between Miami, Brazil, […]
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At the start of 2018, it was glistening gold on the Milan Fashion Week catwalk as Wizkid took his place at Dolce & Gabbana, sharing the runways with supermodel Naomi Campbell and even designer Stefano Gabbana himself. It was a dream come true-not only because a Nigerian pop artist had made it onto one of
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It starts with a pair of Nike trainers on the feet of a teenager in Lagos and an Adidas tracksuit on a billboard in Nairobi. At a fashion pop-up in Accra, the Louis Vuitton monogram is discernible under a wax print jacket. African urban fashion is no longer just local; it’s global, and the global
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When Made Kuti released his sophomore album Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From, it wasn’t merely a sophomore release. It was a declaration of independence within a dynasty that has defined Afrobeat for decades. Born into the legacy of his grandfather Fela and father Femi, Made has had his expectations since birth. But with
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At a symbolic dawn in Cotonou, U.S. artist Ciara was among the first to be accepted on a historic morning in African history, becoming one of the first individuals officially received as a citizen of Benin under a pioneering new law seeking to reconnect descendants of enslaved Africans with their heritage. This action, taken on
Nigerian artist and songwriter Temilade Openiyi, known simply as Tems, is history again after she became the first African female artist to join Spotify’s Billion-Stream Club for featuring on the hit track “Wait For U,” which crossed the one billion streams mark on the platform. The feat, officially recorded on July 23, 2025, is accompanied
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Afrobeats will take another bold jump onto the global stage in September when Nigerian icon Ayra Starr opens for The Weeknd and Shakira at the 2025 Global Citizen Festival in New York City. The sound produced in Lagos’ studios and streets has already topped charts globally. Now, it will echo through the Central Park Great
At Afrobeats‘ global peak, several albums were the most streamed on major platforms. Every album is a moment in time when African sound demanded the world’s attention. On iTunes, Davido’s Timeless reigned supreme. When it was released in March 2023, it became the first African album to debut at number one on the US iTunes
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Davido took to the road with Timeless on his global Timeless Tour, performing in top cities from London to New York, Toronto to Washington, D.C. Everywhere fans sang along, the global reach of the album could no longer be ignored. The certification follows a period in which Afrobeats is no longer niche; it has become
On the late designer’s 45th birthday, September 30, 2025, Paris Fashion Week will launch with a once-in-a-lifetime show: “Virgil Abloh: The Codes,” the first extensive European retrospective dedicated entirely to his revolutionary work. The show is installed in Paris’s legendary Grand Palais and is on view for only ten days, closing on October 10, a
