


African music: ‘We’re here to stay, and you’re going to know about it!’
There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the future for digital music in Africa, with trends including young populations; the rollout of smartphones and mobile networks; and the
RIAA-backed report explores labels’ changing role in music
We’ll be blunt: anyone who tells you that labels are dead is talking out of their trumpet. But anyone who tells you that an artist can’t succeed without a label