Join Face2Face Africa as we share with you the top 10 African songs of 2025. The list is in no particular order.

The proliferation of smartphones and affordable, high-speed internet in Africa has facilitated the widespread consumption of music through digital mediums. African music spans diverse genres like ...

Older genres classed in the World Music category and headlined by Angélique Kidjo continue to inspire newer genres, Afrobeats and Amapiano. Here are 25 standout tunes of 2023. 1. Tyler ICU & Tumelo.za ...

The 1982 track was the band's only No. 1 hit — but has been widely criticized for its confusing lyrics Rob Verhorst/Redferns It was a No. 1 hit — and it’s notoriously a little odd. Toto’s Steve ...

Stonebwoy features in the 2025 AFCON theme song, “Rise Up Africa”, showcasing Ghana's cultural pride as the nation supports ...

Nigerian music legend Innocent Idibia, aka 2baba, has been honoured by the American music publication Billboard The entertainment journal officially named one of the musician’s timeless hits as the ...

Sisanda Nkoala receives funding from the National Research Foundation and has previously been awarded an AW Mellon-UCT Graduate Scholarship in Rhetoric Struggle songs, also known as protest music or ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — An old anti-apartheid song that was a call for Black people to stand up against oppression and has now been decried by Elon Musk and others as promoting the killing of whites ...

Some Nigerian fans will remember him for dazzling fans with his smooth flows in the early 2010s and for his many influential guest appearance notably among which is his commanding verse on AKA's 'Run ...