Disclaimer This timeline covers a sampling of major political, social, and cultural events in South Africa, with special emphasis on apartheid and South African jazz. It does not purport to provide a ...

This special section is devoted to South African jazz, which has prospered for several decades and developed a distinctive character all its own. AAJ: SA was created in 2002 and has since been updated ...

Roughly a month ago, Jazz at Lincoln Center launched its 2025-26 season with a new work by a major American composer and musician conceived in the agreed-upon general style of African music. This past ...

Mohamed was born on December 10, 1949 in the working-class gold-mining town of Benoni in South Africa. By his mid-teens, the Group Areas Act – which divided urban areas into racially segregated zones ...

Bokani Dyer is not just a leading figure in contemporary South African jazz, he’s also a living link to its history. His father, saxophonist Steve Dyer, was part of Medu, a radical multi-disciplinary ...

Manu Dibango, the acclaimed Cameroonian saxophonist whose 1972 hit, “Soul Makossa,” would later be sampled by Michael Jackson, Kanye West, and dozens of other musicians, died Tuesday due to ...

Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...

FILE PHOTO: South African trumpeter Masekela, who was once married to singer Makeba, leaves after paying tribute during MMakeba?s memorial service in Johannesburg JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa ...

What do you do in a country racked by racial strife and division to try to help make things better? That’s the question that Darius and Catherine Brubeck faced in her native South Africa in the midst ...

Like many of today's top jazz guitarists, Lionel Loueke now makes his home in New York City. But Loueke grew up in what he describes as a family of poor intellectuals in Benin, a small country of ...

Kwame Brathwaite. Sikolo Brathwaite wearing a headpiece designed by Carolee Prince. AJASS, Harlem, 1968. (Courtesy of the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles) LOS ANGELES — Black is ...