Shangri-La, stetsons and SZA: Sunday at Glastonbury – a photo essay
The Guardian’s visuals team wrapped things up at Worthy Farm in style, capturing Shania Twain, Nia Archives, intimate family photos with Burna Boy – and a certain football game
June 2024
Burna Boy at Glastonbury review – Afro-fusion maestro starts Pyramid stage party
Increase in Black artists on Glasto bill reflects cultural shift
March 2024
Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival
Brit awards 2024 – full list of winners
October 2023
Nigerian police detain Afrobeats star Naira Marley over death of MohBad
Boss of rising singer’s former music label has denied any involvement in unexplained death
August 2023
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Burna Boy: I Told Them review – Afrobeats superstar punches closer to the mainstream
Eschewing the political controversies of his interviews, the Nigerian musician’s seventh album is streamlined, swaggering and rich with perfectly deployed vocal samples
June 2023
Burna Boy review – historic gig is a swaggering, star-studded triumph
This is the first time an African artist has headlined a stadium in the UK, and Burna Boy rises to the occasion with emotion and energy – aided by guests J Hus, Stormzy, Dave and Popcaan
November 2022
Little Simz and Knucks share best album prize as Mobo winners announced
PinkPantheress wins the best female act award, while Central Cee takes best male act in a ceremony that paid tribute to the late SBTV founder Jamal Edwards
July 2022
Burna Boy: Love, Damini review – heartfelt sixth album
(Atlantic) Some middle-of-the-road diversions mar the Nigerian star’s latest fruitful outing
September 2021
Club culture
Parklife festival review – proof that Manchester is still mad fer it
A young crowd – who could make even twentysomethings feel fossilised – gleefully accepted their city’s rave mantle, losing it to Megan Thee Stallion, Bicep and more
June 2021
‘Africa has so much talent – we can’t even grasp it’: Angélique Kidjo on pop, politics and power
She’s played with everyone from Tony Allen to David Byrne. Now the Grammy winner is singing with a new generation of African stars, celebrating their continent while confronting its failings
August 2020
Burna Boy: Twice As Tall review – new heights for the Afro-fusion wizard
Burna Boy: Twice as Tall review – fun and fury from Nigerian pop polymath
Burna Boy: ‘Brothers in the US have been stripped of their knowledge of self’
The music essay
Will the UK ever love foreign-language pop?
June 2020
Lockdown listening
Saweetie's lockdown listening: 'All we are protesting for is equality, justice, our lives'
The American rapper on Starboy, Kaash Paige, Burna Boy – and how Nipsey Hussle’s Double Up keeps the hustling spirit going
February 2020
Brit awards 2020: who will win every award … and who should
Lewis Capaldi could sweep the board in his breakthrough year, but he faces strong competition from Stormzy, Dave and Michael Kiwanuka
January 2020
Brit award nominations 2020: Dave and Lewis Capaldi top pile, with women shut out
Only one British woman, Mabel, is nominated across the best album, song and new artist categories, which skew heavily in favour of solo men
December 2019
Best culture 2019
2019 in African pop: 10 must-listen tracks
From uptempo romance to feelgood dance, politically spicy rap and crowdpleasing pop, the biggest tracks across Africa last year went big on cross-continental appeal
