Ghanaians are a people who cherish their cultural heritage and try to maintain it in the competition of globalization and amalgamation of cultures. The Ghanaian has a cultural identity but is ...

The latest addition to the Ghanaian dance form is Azonto. It is gradually gaining international popularity. The dance involves knee-bending, throwing of hands in all directions and rigorous hip ...

It seems the word you hear the most in Accra is no longer "akwaaba" or even "chale", but "azonto". The azonto dance has taken Ghana by storm, and although everybody seems to know the dance here, ...

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 Bisa Kdei. You ...

Some dance crazes last barely longer than the time it takes to flip to another radio station. Others prompt Mexican waves of booty–shaking across borders. Ghana's azonto, in which the dancers mime ...

Just when the Azonto dance craze appeared to be dying a natural death, Gasmilla, credited as the father of Azonto has once again revived Ghana’s most populous rhythmic movement in the most fascinating ...

The dances are often very simple at the base level, with freestyle options that have the potential to catapult a song (and a dancer) to new heights. With endless ways to showcase individuality, there ...

Ghanaian rap sensation, Elom Adablah, popularly known as E.L., has shared the fascinating story of how he ventured into the Azonto genre of music. In an interview on Daybreak Hitz with DJ Slim, E.L.

Before President Goodluck Jonathan visited Kano at the hour hoodlums whisked away 276 girls, I had not heard of Azonto, a popular dance rooted in African rhythm and domesticated by local maestros. It ...

Talented DJ and musician, DJ Azonto, is demanding $100 million from sensational rapper Medikal This comes after the rapper used his Alla catchphrase in his newly released song Shoulder which features ...