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Nancy Ajaj
Nancy Ajaj (نانسي عجاج) is a Sudanese singer-songwriter born in 1979 in Omdurman, daughter of musician Badr al-Din Ajaj and a leading voice of the 2018–2019 Sudanese revolution, known for the protest song "Milād".
Nandipha808
Nandipha808 is a South African amapiano producer and DJ known for a "private school amapiano" sound and his featured role on Tyler ICU's 2023 viral hit "Mnike".
Nandy (singer)
The Afrikan Princess is the signature branding of Nandy, born Faustina Charles Mfinanga, a Tanzanian bongo flava singer who named her 2018 album and her 2023 female-only record label after it.
Naxx Bitota
Naxx Bitota is a Congolese-born singer from the Kasaï region, based in Quebec since 2008, whose "Afropop Mutuashi" fuses Afropop with mutuashi, rumba, and reggae; her albums include Kuetu (2022) and 64 (2025).
Naza (musician)
Naza, born Jean-Désiré Sosso Dzabatou in 1993, is a French rapper of Congolese origin from Creil whose "urban rumba" fuses Congolese rumba with hip-hop, producing gold and platinum albums from Incroyable (2017) to RDF (2026).
Nel Ngabo
Nel Ngabo, the stage name of Nelson Byangabo Cyusa, is a Rwandan R&B and afro-pop singer based in Kigali who broke through in 2020 with the hit single 'Byakoroha'.
Neway Debebe
Neway Debebe (ነዋይ ደበበ), born in 1958, is an Ethiopian singer who came to prominence as lead vocalist of the Roha Band and is known for his smooth vocal style and love songs.
Ngoma
Ngoma is a Bantu term across East and Central Africa meaning drum, dance, music, and healing ceremony, an event-environment rather than a genre, feeding Tanzanian pop styles like bongo flava.
Nikita Kering
Nikita Kering is a Kenyan R&B and pop singer born in 2002, a multiple AFRIMA winner and the first East African artist in Apple Music's Africa Rising program.
Niniola
Niniola, full name Niniola Apata, is a Nigerian singer from Lagos known as the "Queen of Afro-House"; her 2017 hit "Maradona" earned her a 2020 Grammy nomination.
Niska
Niska (Georges Stanislas Dinga-Pinto, born 1994) is a French rapper of Congolese origin from Évry, a leading figure of afro-trap known for the hit "Réseaux".
Nissi
Nissi, also known as Nissi Ogulu, is a London-based Nigerian singer, songwriter, and visual artist signed to Spaceship Records, the label of her brother Burna Boy.
Njelic
Njelic, also known as Dr. Gandayi, is a South African amapiano producer, DJ, and vocalist from Soweto, Johannesburg, who broke through with the 2019 hit "Shesha Geza".
Nkwatako
Nkwatako is a song by Ugandan singer Sheebah Karungi, released in 2015 and made the title track of her 2016 debut album; it won Best Afrobeat Song at the 2016 HiPipo Music Awards.
Nneka
Nneka, also known as Nneka Egbuna, is a Nigerian-German singer and songwriter best known for the 2008 single "Heartbeat", a UK Top 20 hit in 2009.
Nomcebo Zikode
Nomcebo Zikode, born Nomcebo Nkwanyana, is a South African singer from Hammarsdale, KwaZulu-Natal, best known as vocalist and lyricist on "Jerusalema" (2019) and a 2023 Grammy winner for "Bayethe".
Nonso Amadi
Nonso Amadi is a Canada-based Nigerian singer, songwriter, and producer blending alté, afro-fusion, and R&B, who broke out with "Tonight" and released When It Blooms in 2023.
Ntando
Ntando, born Ntando Bangani in 1981, is a South African Afro-pop and Afro-soul singer whose debut album Kwantu went platinum and whose single "Dali Wam" won song-of-the-year honors.
NTV Uganda
NTV Uganda is a Kampala-based television station owned by the Nation Media Group, whose music show The Beat, launched in 2013, showcases Ugandan pop videos.
Number One de Dakar
Star Number One de Dakar was a Senegalese dance orchestra formed in Dakar in 1975 by defectors from the Star Band, fusing Afro-Cuban salsa with Senegalese mbalax.
O'Kenneth (musician)
O'Kenneth, born Kenneth Opoku, is a Ghanaian rapper from Kumasi and a founding voice of the Asakaa drill movement, whose 2026 album Came of Age peaked at #2 in Ghana.
Obo Addy
Obo Addy (1936–2012) was a Ghanaian Ga master drummer and composer who pioneered Worldbeat, based in Portland, Oregon, and won a 1996 NEA National Heritage Fellowship.
Odogwu
Odogwu is an Igbo word for a great man, hero, or boss, a traditional chieftaincy title that became everyday Nigerian slang after Burna Boy's 2020 single.
Ofori Amponsah
Ofori Amponsah, also known as Mr. All 4 Real, is a Ghanaian highlife singer born in 1974 who rose to fame as Daddy Lumba's protégé.
Ohemaa Mercy
Ohemaa Mercy (Mercy Twum-Ampofo), born 1977, is a Ghanaian gospel highlife singer whose album Edin Jesus sold 875,000 copies and who won three Ghana Music Awards in 2008.
Oliver De Coque
Oliver De Coque, born Oliver Sunday Akanite (1947–2008), was a Nigerian Igbo highlife guitarist, singer, and bandleader who created ogene highlife, led Expo '76, and recorded over 73 albums.
Olivetheboy
Olivetheboy, the stage name of Ghanaian singer Joel Ofori Bonsu, is an Afrobeats artiste who broke out in 2023 with "GoodSin" and signed with Columbia Records.
Olu Maintain
Olu Maintain is the stage name of Nigerian singer Olumide Edwards Adegbolu, a former member of the Lagos group Maintain, who rose to fame with the 2007 hit single "Yahooze".
Omar Pene
Omar Pene is a Senegalese singer and composer, co-founder and lead vocalist of Super Diamono, the Dakar band whose socially engaged mbalax made him one of the few to rival Youssou N'Dour.
One Africa Music Fest
One Africa Music Fest is an arena-scale Afrobeats showcase series founded by Nigerian promoter Paul Okoye, running arena shows in Brooklyn, Houston, London, and Dubai from 2016 onward.