African Music (Some Types)

It is a fusion of West African with black American music.

• AFROBEAT

• JIT

• JUJU

• MARABI

A musical genre from Nigeria Yoruba in the tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.

• APALA

• JIVE

• KWASSA-KWASSA

• AXE

It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and calypso. 

• AXE

• JIT

• JUJU

• MARABI

A hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.

• JIT

• JUJU

• APALA

• AFROBEAT

A lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug,  a form of swing dance.

• JIVE

• KWASSA-KWASSA

• MARABI

• JIT

A popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms, A drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and accordion are used along with the traditional dun-dun (talking drum or squeeze drum).

• JUJU

• JIVE

• JIT

• AXE

In this dance style, the hips move back and forth while the arms move following the hips.

• KWASSA KWASSA

• JIVE

• MARABI

• AFROBEAT

South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz. 

• MARABI

• AFROBEAT

• AXE

• APALA

It is a dance style begun in Zaire in the late 1980’s, popularized by Kanda Bongo Man.

• KWASSA KWASSA

• JIVE

• MARABI

• AFROBEAT

Possessing a keyboard style combining American jazz, ragtime, and blues with African roots, it is characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony.

• MARABI

• AFROBEAT

• AXE

• APALA