Afrobeat
Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk) is a West African music genre, fusing influences from Yoruba music and Ghanaian music (such as highlife), with American funk, jazz, and soul influences. With a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion, the style was pioneered in the 1960s by Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who popularised it both within and out…