Music

Après les agendas académiques souvent surchargés, les étudiants de l’Université du Burundi au campus Mutanga se déstressent à l’aide de la mélodie de la guitare.

The French embassy in Zambia has asked the local authorities to arrest Congolese rhumba star Koffi Olomide for various allegations. 

  Polémique sur les chansons gospel de Prince Mshindi, Big Zoe, et GN

KAMPALA – President Yoweri Museveni and thousands of Ugandans have paid glowing tributes to Ugandan musician Moses Ssekibogo, best known as Mowzey Radio, who died Thursday morning. « The King is Gone, » the musician’s official Twitter account said.

Soul singer Sampha was named the overall winner of Britain’s Mercury Prize for popular music for his debut album “Process” on Thursday (September 14). The 28-year-old south Londoner collected a trophy and a 25,000-pound award.

Listening to music from other cultures furthers one’s pro-diversity belief Jake Harwood turned his lifelong hobby as a musician into a scholarly question: Could the sharing of music help ease interpersonal relations between people from different backgrounds, such as Americans and Arabs?

A Mississippi man has filed lawsuit against R. Kelly, alleging the singer had an affair with his wife of five years.

Daniella Atim, wife of musician Joseph Mayanja alias Jose Chameleone has asked the Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court to annul her marriage on grounds of cruelty.

Thirty Burundian musicians from inside and outside the country addressed last week a correspondence to the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport asking him to replace the current representative of the Burundian Musicians’ Association.They accuse him of leading this association more than 13 years illegally.

Tanzanian rapper Emmanuel Elibariki, known as Nay wa Mitego, has been released just a day after he was arrested for releasing a song deemed insulting to the government.