Each dance is connected to the different traditional rhythms and music traditions of each region. In Africa, music and dance is used to bring communities together to celebrate special events ...

Music and dance — an integral part of African life — became an important part of life for blacks in America. Both slaves and free blacks used music as an accompaniment to work, worship ...

DanceAfrica, BAM's longest-running program and the nation's largest festival of African dance and culture, returns for its ...

We’re on our way to West Africa. And look ... Try to follow the moves or make up your own dance and groove to the music. The sun comes up in the east and it sets over the sea.

Burna Boy, Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. Afrobeats has dominated global dance music for the last decade or so. Many of us will remember how acts like P-Square of Nigeria ...