Her afrobeat dance class started on a trial basis a few months ago, but after seeing how the community came out and reacted to it — Ebo says it will be offered regularly starting in September.

Meet NOMO, America's premier Afrobeat octet “We have eight people out right now, and we're all in one van with no trailer,” says NOMO bandleader and saxophonist Elliot Bergman.

"A spectacular co-bill of innovative, African-influenced music," said the promotional Web page (the same page that aptly described NOMO as a "post-afrobeat dance explosion").

As (Un)credited: The Story of Afro Dance drops on Red Bull TV, we catch up with Westsyde Lifestyle, the Nigerian crew that popularised a fusion of afrobeat styles.

They are credited with launching the catchy Afrobeat dance music featuring prominent guitars, complex brass harmonies and poly-rhythmic drumming.

Charles de Ledesma tells us about Afrobeat, the latest music trend in dance clubs in London. Afrobeat originated in Lagos, Nigeria in the late 1960s. It borrows heavily from American jazz, funk ...

Afrobeat, a genre combining traditional African music with jazz, funk, and highlife, gained global popularity in the past decade.

This weekend, comedian Zarna Garg performs at Stanford Live, Redtone Records holds an Afrobeat dance party with Soji Odukogbe at Feldman's Books; and Earthwise Productions serves up some roots ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79.

Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79. Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of an aortic aneurysm, his manager Eric Trosset ...