The Best of the Month episode is Patreon-only. This is a preview on the public feed. This month’s best of the month guest is music writer Vanessa Roulston Mooney. We pick our favourite music of the ...

As Black History Month gets underway, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is asking us to listen deeply. "People of African descent — no matter where we are, wherever we've been — we've been in, ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 4 (Reuters) - South Africa's private sector business conditions stabilised in January after a challenging end to 2025, as demand steadied and price pressures eased, an S&P Global ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A gauge of South African manufacturing sentiment improved in January thanks to a pickup in business activity, though weak exports dragged down the headline index, a ...

The South African distributor of the documentary “Melania” pulled the film from theaters hours before it was to debut Friday, citing “recent developments.” South African Melania Trump adherents will ...

Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display ...

This month’s new music roundup could easily be called “sounds from the underground,” as bands from across the local alternative scene showed up and out during the first month of 2026, including a ...

The tool, which identifies, tags, and removes AI-generated music from recommendations, has detected over 13.4 million AI tracks in 2025. The tool, which identifies, tags, and removes AI-generated ...

Album covers clockwise from top left: Brynn's "Impossible Shoes" (Courtesy Aidan La Poche); Babe, Wait's "debut" (Courtesy Casey Wait); Sanyé's "FOR THE WAIT II" (Courtesy Josh Carter); Cape Crush's ...

It's said that if Italian-born British composer and pianist Muzio Clementi hadn't been alive at the same time as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, his name would be better known today. In fact, Beethoven ...

Egypt, Côte d'Ivoire, and Kenya hold the three largest outstanding loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Africa as 2026 begins The IMF's financial programmes remain a critical lifeline ...