With nominees like DIMAHR, Ras Canly, and Don Dada, this year's Best Reggae Album award at the 32nd South African Music ...

South African reggae singer, Lucky Dube, was shot and killed in suburban Johannesburg on Thursday. Lucky Dube started off singing in traditional South African style, but turned to the appealing ...

And the South African reggae star Lucky Dube has been shot dead in an attempted car jacking in Johannesburg. The 43-year-old singer was South Africa’s biggest-selling reggae artist. In 1984, South ...

To promote togetherness and solidarity in Africa, a musical festival tagged, Africa Reggae and Dance Fest is set to take place on March 28, 2020 in Lagos. The event which is put together by Nigerian ...

A non-Rastafarian reggae musician who grew up a practicing Muslim, Tiken Jah Fakoly is a native of Africa’s Ivory Coast who draws most of his material and inspiration from his home continent. His ...

Anthropologist Carole Yawney has documented how on the eve of South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 the African National Congress (ANC) distributed an ...

Does Bob Marley still inspire African artists? It seems a strange question to ask if you’ve been listening to the hits that are played over and over again on the TV station Trace Africa. Reggae music ...

The concept of "Africa rising" has long lacked significance, and the idea of an African renaissance often appears as a lofty slogan without practical manifestation. However, recent political events in ...

(Adds details of police investigation) By Marius Bosch JOHANNESBURG, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot reggae star Lucky Dube in front of his children in one of South Africa's highest-profile murders, ...