Ethiopian musician Teddy Afro is known for crafting pop songs with political messages. A video has been shared on Facebook ...

Mulatu Astatke struggled for decades before his name became associated worldwide with a musical genre and he was finally born ...

Multiple music festivals across the globe are celebrating African music throughout the whole year, and Billboard is rounding ...

Ahead of the release of her 14th novel, “King of Envy,” the author looks back at a whirlwind five years.

A new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art features works by artists who explore environmental issues, grief and ...

Legend has it the house was once offered to the emperor himself. Its original owner sought to gift the home to Menelik, ...

Ethiopian runner Ftaw Zeray has set a new women's record for the Shanghai Half Marathon, completing the 21-kilometer distance ...

When Jazz Fest ends for the day, many people shift gears into evening plans, and the neighborhoods closest to the fest set a ...

The oldest annual marathon in the world is the Boston Marathon, first run in 1897. The first Boston Marathon was inspired by ...

New Delhi, A short film by students of Kolkata's prestigious Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute has been selected for ...

“The initiative is truly by artists, for artists,” said Leulseged Retta, a pioneering figure in Ethiopia’s contemporary art ...