Editing Africa (section)

=== Music ===

African music is highly varied and has influenced global musical culture. It includes traditional forms, religious music, court music, work songs, dance music, popular music, jazz-influenced styles, hip hop, reggae, Afrobeat, highlife, soukous, mbalax, taarab, rai, amapiano, and many other genres.

Rhythm, call-and-response, percussion, vocal layering, improvisation, and dance are important in many African musical traditions, although styles differ greatly by region. Instruments include drums, xylophones, harps, lutes, flutes, horns, mbiras, koras, ngonis, guitars, and electronic instruments.

Music has been used for ceremony, storytelling, political criticism, worship, entertainment, protest, and identity. African musicians have had major influence in the Americas, Europe, the Caribbean, and global popular culture.