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Best North African Songs of 2025 So Far — Mid-Year Roundup | OkayAfrica

2 days ago | okayafrica.com | Amuna Wagner

2025 rolled in slowly for North African music. This might be due to various reasons, such as the shifting music industry, which is increasingly dominated by Western labels setting up shop, as the Middle East and North Africa have been named the world's fastest-growing recorded music region for the second time in three years.
Amapiano: The South African Sound That Took Over the World | OkayAfrica

1 week ago | okayafrica.com | Tseliso Monaheng

This OkayAfrica video traces amapiano's journey from South African townships to the world's biggest stages. As OkayAfrica marks our 15th anniversary, we're taking a look back at 15 defining African moments of the past 15 years that deserve to be remembered, and the impact they've had. Here's Moment No. 12. Click here for more OkayAfrica15 stories. For many outside of South Africa, amapiano became a lockdown soundtrack in 2020.
18 South African Music Acts to Watch in Honor of Youth Day

1 week ago | okayafrica.com | Tseliso Monaheng

On June 16, 1976, thousands of Black South African students took to the streets of Soweto to protest the apartheid government’s imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools. What began as a peaceful march turned into a massacre that spread to parts of the country, as police opened fire, killing hundreds. Youth Day now commemorates their courage and resistance, and stands as a reminder of the power and cost of protest.
13 South African Hip-Hop Songs About Fatherhood

2 weeks ago | okayafrica.com | Sabelo MKhabela |Tseliso Monaheng

The “raised-by-a-single-mother" narrative is common in rap. So much that rap songs about fatherhood are few and far between. For Fathers' Day, we dug for some rap gems from South Africa which show appreciation to fathers, and those of rappers talking about their roles as fathers, in this updated list.
The Death Toll Continues to Rise in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Floods | OkayAfrica

2 weeks ago | okayafrica.com | Tseliso Monaheng

At least 78 people so far have lost their lives in the Eastern Cape’s O.R. Tambo district in South Africa, following days of relentless rainfall, SABC News reports. Among the victims are six high school learners and two adults who drowned on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, when a 22-seater minibus carrying 13 learners from Jumba Senior Secondary School was swept into a river on the R61 bridge in Decoligny, one of the worst-hit areas near Mthatha. “[The rescue workers] waited for the water to subside.
The Best Afrobeats Songs of The Week - June 13, 2025

2 weeks ago | okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu |Tseliso Monaheng

Every week, OkayAfrica highlights the top Afrobeats and African music releases through our best music column, Songs You Need to Hear This Week. Read ahead for our round-up of the best new African music tracks and music videos that came across our desks this week. Afrobeats veteran Olamide assembles an all-star cast on “99,” a banger released ahead of his forthcoming self-titled album.
Lojay Talks Growth, Fame, and the Cost of Creativity

2 weeks ago | okayafrica.com | Tseliso Monaheng

Lojay speaks openly about the emotional layers that shape his music in this episode of Afrobeats Intelligence. The last time Joey Akan caught up with Lojay, it was at the dynamic Nigerian artist’s house. This time, the roles are reversed: Lojay is in Akan’s territory – the Afrobeats Intelligence podcast – for a free-ranging, joyful conversation that lasts just over an hour.
Four African Teams Are Headed to the First-Ever 32-Team FIFA Club World Cup in the U.S. | OkayAfrica

2 weeks ago | okayafrica.com | Lihle Z. Mtshali |Zee Ngema

For the first time in the history of the FIFA Club World Cup, four African clubs will take the global stage when the expanded tournament kicks off in the United States on Sunday, June 15. Al Ahly (Egypt), Wydad Casablanca (Morocco), Espérance de Tunis (Tunisia), and Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa) will represent the continent in what is being billed as a new era for club football. The Club World Cup isn't new — it's been around since 2000 — but this year is different.
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Africa Keeps Failing Its Women and Girls | OkayAfrica

2 weeks ago | okayafrica.com | Gabriella Opara

Women in Africa have been protesting gender-based violence for years, having to amplify their voices to get some justice. The rape of a young girl or the murder of a woman hardly moves the needle of justice until placards of "Stop Killing Us," "EnaZeda," "End Femicide," or "#ShutitAllDown" are raised in outrage.
How Sudanese Displacement to Egypt Might Help End FGM

2 weeks ago | okayafrica.com | Amuna Wagner

Female Genital Mutilation Amongst Sudanese Migrants In Greater Cairo: Perceptions And Trends is the first study looking at FGM in Sudanese communities in Egypt. "Sudanese families are not aware that Egyptians practice FGM. Amongst them, type three [the most extreme] is usually known as Pharaonic. So when we ask them whether Egyptians practice FGM or not, they realize that Egyptians must practice FGM because it's Pharaonic," Dr. Yussra Mohammed tells OkayAfrica.