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 ...

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 ...

Back when I did my Kuduro pt. II column I intimated that there was not enough Coupe Decale out there on par with Bablee, who at the time had just dropped a 12-inch on Radioclit’s Uppercuts imprint.

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, ...

Journalist Mory Touré seems to be talking about a hard-drug courier when referring to him. “He knew how to break down the borders of a genre that was Ivorian,” he says. “He was everywhere, no one ...