I’m back at it again with a selection of tracks highlighting my favorite African women of the continent and diaspora across all genres and styles. I hope you find a new artist to follow in here and please check out the full playlist that more broadly features women of color from all over here. You can […]

Aaand we’re back. I had a lot of fun featuring some dope African ladies a few months ago so I thought I’d do another round. These women are from all over the continent, across a variety of styles so I hope you can find something to groove to. Check out my much longer playlist on […]

Lately I’ve found myself listening to a lot of old music. There is something very centering and zen about revisiting the soundtrack of past moments in your life.  It’s especially exciting when you start to pick up on things that you weren’t able to understand because of your age. For me, that’s been happening with […]

Shoutout to Women’s History month. Whenever I’m feeling particularly oppressed, I’m always relieved to know that there is a single month carved out in the whole year for me to continue to feel oppressed. But hey, at least we’re talking about it right? Speaking of male domination, in the land of afrobeats, afropop, afrohouse, afrowave, […]

We now live in a world where Afrobeats is played in mainstream clubs and a lot of Americans are likely to know at least one popular Nigerian artist – whether it’s Ayo Jay of “Your Number” (though many people still think he’s Caribbean) and/or Wizkid through the highly coveted Drake cosign. And then you have […]

A few months ago I attended a DJ lecture by Teju Cole. Part of Performa, the month long performance biennial in New York last November, the prompt for the lecture was something along the lines of, “How does music inform one’s sense of Africanness?”  More listening than lecture, Cole proceeded to play a number of […]

I didn’t realize how much my social life depended on African communities until I moved back home to Raleigh, North Carolina. Going to school in the northeast and having easy access to major cities such as New York, Philly, and D.C made finding young Africans very easy. Almost too easy, whether it was Afropolitan parties […]