The nightlife in Kenya is wild and we finally decided to dive in. We spent 24 hours at the Kaleidoscope Music Festival in ...

Kenya's mainstream music circuit is flourishing, and artistes who have the numbers are making money. The likes of Bahati, Otile Brown, Khaligraph Jones, Nadia Mukami, Jovial, Willy Paul and King Kaka ...

This summer, Kenya came to Washington, D.C. Artists, runners and Maasai elders were part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. They spoke with us... One musician traces his ancestry by playing his ...

Burundian music icon Nimbona Jean-Pierre, better known as Kidum, has just returned to Nairobi after a two-week music and business tour in Dubai. The singer, composer, instrumentalist and band leader ...

Nairobi — Walk into any chain American music store and you are likely to encounter a prodigious display of all kinds of music. The bulk is obviously American arranged according to genre: jazz, gospel, ...

<strong><em>'INSHA'</em></strong> explores the role of music in Kenyan culture and storytelling, particularly in traditional ceremonies, aiming to bridge the gap ...

Kenya’s music industry reached new heights in 2025 since theyear brought explosive growth in streaming figures, breakthrough hit songs andfresh voices that rewrote the country’s soundscape.Kenyan ...

Disgruntled talent in the Nairobi have publicly come out to express their dismay at the deficit of their songs on the airwaves. Members of the Kenyan Musician Movement took to the Nation Centre in ...

Kenya is marking 60 years since its independence from British colonial rule on December 12, 1963. Each year, the country celebrates the occasion with a national holiday, Jamhuri Day. And for much of ...

Protests against Kenyan President William Ruto have sparked a new wave of music, poetry and art. That's energizing the young Kenyans leading the protests, even as human rights groups say many of the ...

When John Ouko walks the green, leafy paths of the Nairobi Arboretum, he sees thousands of tiny signs of hope for a tree that had been cut to the point that Kenyans feared they might lose it—the ...