Region
Africa
Music genres and styles from Africa — African, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Cape Verde among them.
- African heavy metal
- African popular music
- African reggae
- Afro fusion
- Afro house
- Afro tech
- Afro-Brazilian music
- Afrobeat
- Afrobeats
- Agbadza
- Alté
- Amapiano
- Apala
- Azonto
- Baganda music
- Baka music
- Balwo
- Bango (music)
- Batuque (Cape Verde)
- Benga music
- Berber music
- Bigwala
- Bikutsi
- Bongo Flava
- Boomba music
- Bubu music
- Chazezesa Challengers
- Chimurenga music
- Colá
- Coladeira
- Congolese rumba
- Coupé-décalé
- Desert blues
- Dhaanto
- East African urban music
- Ethio-jazz
- Ethiopian chant
- Ewe music
- Famo
- Funaná
- Gambian hip-hop
- Genge
- Gnawa music
- Gqom
- Highlife
- Hipco
- Hiplife
- Hiragasy
- Igbo Christian music
- Igbo highlife
- Igbo music
- Igbo rap
- Ikwokirikwo
- Isicathamiya
- Ivorian hip-hop
- Jaiva
- Jit
- Jùjú music
- Kadongo Kamu
- Kaiso
- Kalindula
- Kenyan hip-hop
- Kidandali
- Kilalaky (music genre)
- Kizomba
- Kpanlogo
- Kuduro
- Kwaito
- Kwela
- Makossa
- Malawian hip-hop
- Malipenga
- Maloya
- Marabi
- Marrabenta
- Maskandi
- Mbalax
- Mbaqanga
- Mbube (genre)
- Middle Eastern and North African music traditions
- Morna (music)
- Ndombolo
- Ngoma music
- Nigerian gospel
- Nigerian reggae
- Nigerien hip-hop
- Njuup
- Odi Pop
- Ohangla
- Owerri Bongo
- Palm-wine music
- Pygmy music
- Qaraami
- Rebita
- Rieldans
- Sakara music
- Salegy
- Santé engagé
- Sebene
- Senegalese hip-hop
- Shangaan electro
- Shona music
- Singeli
- South African folk music and AIDS
- Sub-Saharan African music traditions
- Taarab
- Tabanka
- The Voëlvry Movement
- Tizita
- Township music
- Tsapiky
- Tswana music
- Wolof music
- Xhosa music
- Zamrock
- Zimbabwean jazz
- Zimdancehall
- Zouglou
- Zulu music