Artists

Evans 'Pfumela' Mapfumo is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Zimbabwe. His music is inspired by real events including war, poverty and child abuse, enriched with messages encouraging peace, love and unity.

His band has a vibrant stage presence, fusing traditional rhythms played on marimba and mbira with acoustic guitar and other read more

Fanie Fayar is a singer-songwriter and dancer from Congo Brazzaville. Her music, dubbed ‘Nsangi Groove-Soul’ uniquely combines pop, funk and soul rhythms with traditional instruments, including sanza, balafon, ndara and tam-tam.

Fanie Fayar is known for her extraordinary alchemy and boundless energy on stage.

With her eclectic music and exceptional voice, she read more

iamsiwas has DJ’d clubs and festivals in some of the world major music cities: London, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Accra, Dakar, Maputo, Nairobi and Zanzibar, moving effortlessly between the foundations of afrobeat, afro-jazz, reggae, soul and funk with contemporary cross-cultural dub, electronica, hip-hop, R&B, pop and afrobeats to keep the dance floor read more

Msaki has always had a knack for voicing our inner fears, hopes and desires. She is a singer-songwriter-producer-curator and one of South Africa’s most unique and exciting talents.

She is equally at home in acoustic settings as well as on chart-topping bangers by the globally revered South African house music fraternity read more

Founded in 1905, Nadi Ikhwan Safaa can probably trace its roots back further than any other orchestra in Africa.

At first, the group played Egyptian and Arabic music. In the early 1950s, they started composing their own songs with Swahili lyrics. Since then, Ikhwan Safaa - or ‘Malindi Taarab’, as they read more

Nomfusi is a self-taught singer-songwriter, whose music incorporates afropop, afrosoul, gospel and ballads with maskandi guitars and other sounds of the townships.

As a young girl, Nomfusi used to accompany her mother to weekly sangoma rituals, where she developed interest in music, singing and dancing.

She is now revered across the world read more