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 ...

Since independence, Kenyan musicians have developed unique ways of performing and writing music. It was in the mid-20th century that the genres of Benga, Bango, and Taarab were created by local ...

Women have been at the heart of music lately in Kenya: be it the likes of Maandy in hip hop, Njerae in R&B or deejays like Tina Ardor, Kaneda or Red Bone. And some like Elsy Wameyo and Xenia Manasseh ...

The tragedy of Kenyan music is best seen in the symbolism of the country’s road accidents, which seem to consume singers every other year (E-Sir readily comes to mind, on March 16, 2003). So potent is ...

Jamea Sale with some of the Kenyan students who have benefited from her work bringing music to their schools. Gregory Wegst It takes more than a village to teach a child music in the remote corners of ...

The party is in Kenya, but the vibe is distinctly Americana: a sea of cowboy hats and boots with a soundtrack of whisky-soaked tales about heartbreak and good ol' boys. Kenya has become the unlikely ...