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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.
Hitradio Namibia: first commercial German-language radio station in Namibia, broadcasting in the central and coastal areas as well as by a live stream. Channel 7 : Broadcasting on 104.5 FM in Windhoek.
Trace Africa is an Afro-pop music channel dedicated to airing Africa's top music artists. Trace Africa, Africa’s number one music channel, is dedicated to playing and showcasing music of Africa’s top artists and genres including Afro-pop, coupé-décalé, Kwaito house, Afro-trap, makossa, and ndombolo through radio and live concert events.
Initially broadcasting for 15 hours a day, the station broadcasts a wide range of MOR music, interviews and community notices in three languages – English, Afrikaans and Xhosa, live 24 hours a day. In September 1996 the station relocated to premises in the Somerset Mall from where the volunteer presenters and a full-time staff of six kept the ...
Liberia has many local radio stations, many of them broadcasting in regional languages, of which there are more than 30. Some stations may be missing from this list; others may be listed more than once if they were referred to by more than one name by different sources.
Channel Africa broadcasts live on two platforms: satellite and Internet. Its broadcasts are in Chewa, Silozi, Swahili, English, French and Portuguese. The satellite broadcast is via PAS 10 and is accessible through SENTECH's vivid decoders. The discontinued shortwave broadcast covered south, east, central and west Africa.
West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) is a trans-territorial, sub-regional broadcaster based in Dakar, Senegal.WADR is a project of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) set up in 2003 to protect and defend the ideals of democratic and open societies by disseminating development information through a network of community radios in the West African sub-region.
drummers of Guinea's national dance company. Guinea is a West African nation, composed of several ethnic groups.Among its most widely known musicians is Mory Kanté – 10 Cola Nuts saw major mainstream success in both Guinea and Mali while "Yé ké yé ké", a single from Akwaba Beach, was a European success in 1988.