Apple Music is launching its first radio show in Africa. The streaming platform announced May 28 that “Africa Now Radio with Cuppy” will debut May 31 and will feature a mix of contemporary and ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

Note: This article was originally published in April 2005. It was created at a time when African music was on the cusp of becoming an increasingly large part of the Western pop culture landscape.

The African Diaspora connects people from Africa to the Caribbean and Latin America, linking them through the transatlantic slave trade, various cultures and foods. Music was also influenced by those ...