While African music genres like Afrobeats, Afro-pop, Amapiano and others are enjoying immense popularity on the world stage, Liberians have stuck pretty much to their own home-brewed genre known as ...
With more than 2,400 Ebola deaths in Liberia alone, the killer virus may not sound like the most obvious subject to write a song about. But health officials are using all means at their disposal to ...
Monrovia — Underground artist Prince Oluwale Williams, popularly known by his stage name Will~Flash00, is quickly rising to prominence in the Liberian music scene with two major hit songs gaining ...
Elliott Adekoya, 31, aka The Milkman, is a DJ at Monrovia's Sky FM radio, pictured here his DJ booth. He is also part of a group of 45 Liberian musicians called the Save Liberia Project. They want to ...
Monrovia — In a major step toward restoring credibility and unity in Liberia's creative sector, the Musicians Union of Liberia (MULIB) has officially confirmed the induction of a new leadership team, ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - At 7 years old, Benji B. Kai would sit in on music rehearsals with his uncle -- Zack Roberts, Liberia’s famous musician and lead singer of the 1980′s band Zack & Jeebah. “After ...
About 15,000 Liberian immigrants live in Philadelphia. Their presence became painfully visible when a fire ripped through several rowhouses in Southwest Philadelphia, leaving four children dead and ...
Apr 9, 2017 Apr 9, 2017 Updated Mar 11, 2022 Ten years ago, when the two boys were 10 and 8 respectively, they left one world and entered another. Before, there was dismay, fear, mischief and terror, ...
“If we don’t speak up against the ills in society, who will?” asks Takun J, Liberia’s Hip Co King, in front of thousands of screaming fans at a concert in Monrovia. He then launches into “Police Man” ...
The Rev. George Walters-Sleyon was a 25-year-old relief worker in his native Liberia in 1990. The young minister went door-to-door through the war-torn capital of Monrovia to register people for food ...