Victim of a motorcycle accident on the night of Sunday 11 to Monday 12 August in Abidjan, the Ivorian artist Ange Didier Huon – alias DJ Arafat – died from his injuries in a clinic in Abidjan, ...

Ivory Coast was going through a rough patch in the autumn of 2002. A failed coup on September 19 prompted civil war, forcing a schism between the country’s rebel-held north and government-controlled ...

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 coupé décalé ...

Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago. This week is dedicated to the explosion of coupe decale—uptempo madness ...