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Vee Mampeezy
Vee Mampeezy is the stage name of Odirile Sento, a Botswana kwaito-kwasa singer and entrepreneur born in 1983 in Hukuntsi, active since the early 2000s.
Venom & Shishiliza (group)
Venom & Shishiliza are a South African production duo, DJ Venom and Sebastian "Shishiliza" Jameson, known for the 2022 multi-platinum single "Sondela" and album LOVE IS PAIN.
Victor AD
Victor AD, real name Victor Adere, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter whose 2018 hustlers' anthem "Wetin We Gain" became one of the year's biggest Nigerian songs.
Victoria Kimani
Victoria Kimani is a Kenyan singer and songwriter blending Afropop and R&B who became the first female artist signed to Nigeria's Chocolate City and has released five studio albums.
Vieux Farka Touré
Vieux Farka Touré is a Malian singer and guitarist born in 1981 in Niafunke, Mali, son of desert blues pioneer Ali Farka Touré and nicknamed "the Hendrix of the Sahara".
Vinka
Vinka, born Veronica Luggya, is a Ugandan Afropop and dancehall singer from Kampala who moved from artist management into a solo career in 2017, with hits including "Malaika" and "Bebe".
Virusi Mbaya
Virusi Mbaya is the stage name of Peter Waweru, a Kenyan hip-hop artist from Kibera, Nairobi, whose 2025 and 2026 releases, including "Have Mercy" with Scar Mkadinali, brought wider visibility.
Waldemar Bastos
Waldemar Bastos (1954–2020) was an Angolan singer-songwriter and guitarist who blended afropop with fado and Brazilian influences; he defected into exile in 1982 and broke through internationally with Pretaluz (1998).
Wanavokali
Wanavokali is a Kenyan R&B and soul vocal collective of six artists from Nairobi, formed in 2019 after meeting on the Safaricom Twaweza Live Tour.
Wanitwa mos & Nkosazana Daughter
Wanitwa mos & Nkosazana Daughter is the billing under which South African amapiano producer Master KG and vocalist Nkosazana Daughter release joint music, including the gold-certified 2024 album Makhelwane.
Wasafi FM
Wasafi FM is a 24-hour Swahili-language radio station broadcasting on 90.8 FM in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, launched in 2018 and owned by Diamond Platnumz's Wasafi Media.
Wassoulou
Wassoulou, also called Wassoulou music, is a semi-acoustic popular music style from southern Mali, rooted in hunters' music, led by women singers such as Oumou Sangaré, and popular since the 1970s.
Wavy the Creator
Wavy the Creator is the stage name of Jennifer Ejoke, a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and photographer in the alté scene, known for 'H.I.G.H', 'Body Deep', and 'Star'.
Wendy Shay
Wendy Shay, born Wendy Asiamah Addo, is a Ghanaian afro-pop and afrobeats singer-songwriter signed to RuffTown Records in 2018 and known for her debut single "Uber Driver".
Wenge Musica BCBG
Wenge Musica BCBG is a Congolese soukous and ndombolo group from Kinshasa, founded in December 1997 by singer JB Mpiana after the break-up of the original Wenge Musica.
Will Linley
Will Linley, born William Peter Nel Linley, is a South African pop singer from Cape Town who broke out on TikTok with the 2021 number 1 hit "miss me (when you're gone)".
Willis Chimano
Willis Chimano, known mononymously as Chimano, is a Kenyan singer and baritone vocalist of the Afropop band Sauti Sol, who came out publicly in 2021 and now performs solo.
Winky D
Winky D, born Wallace Chirumiko in 1983, is a Zimbabwean reggae-dancehall artist from Kambuzuma, Harare, and a pioneer of Zimdancehall whose politically charged lyrics have drawn official attention.
Wolof urban rap and slam poetry
Wolof urban rap and slam poetry are Senegal's two principal spoken-word forms: rap, known locally as rap galsen, grew from 1980s Dakar dance culture, while slam has associations in all 14 regions.
World Circuit (record label)
World Circuit is a London-based independent record label specializing in Cuban and West African music, founded in 1986 and known for the Grammy-winning, 8-million-selling Buena Vista Social Club album.
Wouter Kellerman
Wouter Kellerman, born in Johannesburg in 1961, is a South African flautist and composer who has won three Grammy Awards and South Africa's Order of Ikhamanga in Gold.
WurlD
WurlD is the stage name of Sadiq Onifade, a Nigerian singer and songwriter born in Lagos in 1987 who fuses soul, R&B, and electronic music within Afrobeats.
Wuta Mayi
Wuta Mayi, born Gaspard Wuta Mayi, is a Congolese rumba and soukous singer born in Kinshasa in 1949, a veteran of TPOK Jazz, Les Quatre Étoiles, and Kékélé.
Xenia Manasseh
Xenia Manasseh, also credited as Xenia Karungu, is a Kenyan-Ugandan R&B singer-songwriter and producer from Nairobi, based in Los Angeles, known for the Love/Hate albums.
Ya Levis
Ya Levis, real name Prince Nemiala, is a Congolese singer-songwriter from Kinshasa who fuses rumba with R&B and afro-pop, breaking through in 2018 with the hit "Libala".
Yanos
Yanos is South African township slang for amapiano, the electronic dance music that emerged in the country's Black townships around 2012 and broke out commercially in 2019.
YBNL Nation
YBNL Nation (Yahoo Boy No Laptop Nation) is a Nigerian independent record label founded in 2012 by rapper Olamide. It has developed Afrobeats artists such as Fireboy DML, Asake, and Lil Kesh.
Ycee
Ycee is the stage name of Oludemilade Martin Alejo, a Nigerian rapper and singer born in 1993 who broke out of the Lagos scene in 2015 with "Jagaban" and "Juice".
Yo Maps
Yo Maps, born Elton Mulenga in 1994, is a Zambian singer whose 2018 hit "Finally" brought mainstream fame and whose album Try Again set Zambian streaming records.
Yod Abyssinia
Yod Abyssinia is a large cultural restaurant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, founded in 2003, that pairs traditional Ethiopian cuisine with live traditional music and dance performances nightly.