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Contemporary styles of music in West Africa have been influenced by American music, African jazz and gospel music. [2] The forced migration of Africans to the Americas as a result of the transatlantic slave trade gave rise to kaiso [ 3 ] music, which has influenced the sounds of Calypso , [ 4 ] a style with major popularity throughout West Africa.
The FBISE was established under the FBISE Act 1975. [2] It is an autonomous body of working under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training. [3] The official website of FBISE was launched on June 7, 2001, and was inaugurated by Mrs. Zobaida Jalal, the Minister for Education [4] The first-ever online result of FBISE was announced on 18 August 2001. [5]
West African music (yellow on the map) includes the music of Senegal and the Gambia, of Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia, of the inland plains of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso and also the coastal nations of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo as well as the islands of Cape ...
Release date Artist Album Genre Label Ref February 16 Les Amazones d'Afrique: Musow Danse: Mande Music/Electropop Real World Records [10] February 23 Aziza Brahim: Mawja: Glitterbeat [11] February 23 The Soil: Reimagined: Kasi soul [12] March 22 Tyla: Tyla: amapiano and fusion of Western pop, hip hop and R&B: Fax and Epic Records [13] [14] May ...
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Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony is a music theory of harmony in sub-Saharan African music based on the principles of homophonic parallelism (chords based around a leading melody that follow its rhythm and contour), homophonic polyphony (independent parts moving together), counter-melody (secondary melody) and ostinato-variation (variations based on a repeated theme).
Palm-wine music [1] [2] (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre.It evolved among the Kru people of Liberia and Sierra Leone, who used Portuguese guitars brought by sailors, combining local melodies and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso to create a "light, easy, lilting style".
Tishoumaren (ⵜⵉⵛⵓⵎⴰⵔⴻⵏ in Neo-Tifinagh script) or assouf, [1] internationally known as desert blues, is a style of music from the Sahara region of northern and west Africa. Critics describe the music as a fusion of blues and rock music with Tuareg , Malian or North African music . [ 2 ]