Ghanaians are a people who cherish their cultural heritage and try to maintain it in the competition of globalization and amalgamation of cultures. The Ghanaian has a cultural identity but is ...

Ghana-based Benjamin Lebrave speaks fluent French and English, and can schmooze in Spanish and Portuguese. He’ll report on new African music every other week. This week, he wrote about Bisa Kdei. You ...

It seems the word you hear the most in Accra is no longer "akwaaba" or even "chale", but "azonto". The azonto dance has taken Ghana by storm, and although everybody seems to know the dance here, ...

How you go describe person wey dey chop fire? Azonto na 32-year-old fire eater for Lagos Nigeria, im start to dey chop fire six years ago afta e learn am from im friends dem wey dey act film. One tin ...

Some dance crazes last barely longer than the time it takes to flip to another radio station. Others prompt Mexican waves of booty–shaking across borders. Ghana's azonto, in which the dancers mime ...

Just when the Azonto dance craze appeared to be dying a natural death, Gasmilla, credited as the father of Azonto has once again revived Ghana’s most populous rhythmic movement in the most fascinating ...

The dances are often very simple at the base level, with freestyle options that have the potential to catapult a song (and a dancer) to new heights. With endless ways to showcase individuality, there ...

Before President Goodluck Jonathan visited Kano at the hour hoodlums whisked away 276 girls, I had not heard of Azonto, a popular dance rooted in African rhythm and domesticated by local maestros. It ...

Ghanaian act Sarkodie courts with controversy in a fresh interview granted to a UK based radio station in which he claims to be the originator of the famous Azonto slang. He says he was the first to ...