Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago. This week is dedicated to the explosion of coupe decale—uptempo madness ...

Back when I did my Kuduro pt. II column I intimated that there was not enough Coupe Decale out there on par with Bablee, who at the time had just dropped a 12-inch on Radioclit’s Uppercuts imprint.

The late Ivorian singer DJ Arafat shook up the country and the region’s music scenes before his recent and tragic death. Journalist Mory Touré seems to be talking about a hard-drug courier when ...

Ivory Coast was going through a rough patch in the autumn of 2002. A failed coup on September 19 prompted civil war, forcing a schism between the country’s rebel-held north and government-controlled ...

'Coupe Decale' brings only one scene to mind, well we shall wait till the video is released, till then just listen and enjoy! Subscribe to receive daily news updates.

Victim of a motorcycle accident on the night of Sunday 11 to Monday 12 August in Abidjan, the Ivorian artist Ange Didier Huon – alias DJ Arafat – died from his injuries in a clinic in Abidjan, ...

DJ Arafat, an Ivorian singer with a huge following in francophone Africa, has died after a road accident in Abidjan, the state broadcaster RTI said on Monday. According to messages and pictures ...