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Farafina
Farafina is a percussion and balafon group from Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, founded by Mahama Konaté and known through collaborations with the Rolling Stones and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Fathermoh
Fathermoh is the stage name of Moses Otieno Ojwang, a Kenyan gengetone singer-songwriter from Nairobi, formerly of Mbuzi Gang, known for the hits Shamra Shamra and Kaskie Vibaya.
Faya Tess
Faya Tess is the stage name of Thérèse Kishila Ngoyi, a Congolese rumba and soukous singer born in Kinshasa in 1966, known as the freshwater mermaid.
Félix Wazekwa
Félix Wazekwa, born Nlandu Wazekwa Félix in Kinshasa in 1962, is a Congolese rumba singer-songwriter who wrote for Koffi Olomidé and Papa Wemba before a solo career.
Felo Le Tee
Felo Le Tee, born Tsholofelo Mokhine, is a South African amapiano producer and DJ from Siyabuswa, Mpumalanga, known for the hits '66', 'Bopha', and 'Yebo Lapho (Gogo)'.
Femi One
Femi One, born Wanjiku Kimani, is a Kenyan rapper from Mwiki, Nairobi, signed to King Kaka's Kaka Empire, best known for the 2020 hit "Utawezana" with Mejja.
FESPACO
FESPACO is a biennial pan-African film and television festival held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, first staged in 1969. It awards the top prize Étalon de Yennenga.
Festival panafricain de musique (FESPAM)
The Festival panafricain de musique (FESPAM) is a biennial pan-African music festival held in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, since 1996, organized with the African Union and UNESCO.
Fifi Cooper
Fifi Cooper (born Refilwe Boingotlo Mooketsi) is a South African Motswako rapper from Mahikeng whose debut album 20FIFI was released in 2015 on Ambitiouz Entertainment.
Fik Fameica
Fik Fameica, also known as Fikarrr, is a Ugandan rapper and singer from Kampala who broke through in 2017 with "Byenyenya" and swept Ugandan awards in 2018.
Five Star Music (record label)
Five Star Music is a Nigerian independent record label based in Lagos, founded by the singer Kcee and his brother E-Money, whose 2013 hit 'Limpopo' was its breakthrough.
Floby
Floby is the stage name of Florent Belemgnegré, a Burkinabè pop singer-songwriter who has been a central figure of Burkinabè urban pop since his first album in 2006.
Flvme
Flvme, born Lesego Kyle Mnyandu in 1999, is a South African rapper and producer who rose through The Wrecking Crew and now records independently on his New Regime Sound label.
Foday Musa Suso
Foday Musa Suso was a Gambian griot and kora virtuoso, a founding member of the Mandingo Griot Society who fused Mandinka music with jazz and minimalism before his death in 2025.
Fou Malade
Fou Malade, born Malal Almamy Talla in 1974, is a Senegalese rapper from Guédiawaye, Dakar, who leads Bat'Haillons Blin-D and co-founded Y'en a Marre in 2011.
Francis Bebey
Francis Bebey (1929–2001) was a Cameroonian musician, novelist, and musicologist who modernized makossa with classical guitar, the sanza, and synthesizers, winning the Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire.
Franco & OK Jazz
Franco & OK Jazz, also known as T.P. OK Jazz, was a Congolese rumba orchestra founded in Kinshasa in 1956 by guitarist Franco, dissolved in 1993.
Francois van Coke
Francois van Coke, born Francois Badenhorst in 1980, is a South African Afrikaans rock singer and songwriter, frontman of Fokofpolisiekar and a solo artist since 2015.
Franglish
Franglish is the stage name of Gédéon Mundele Ngolo, born 1994 in Paris, a French singer and rapper blending R&B, rap, and Congolese-rooted afro-pop, with four top-10 albums and five diamond singles.
Fulu Miziki Kolektiv
Fulu Miziki Kolektiv, also known as Fulu Miziki, is a Kinshasa-based Congolese collective, assembled in 2003 by Pisko Crane, that plays Afro-futurist punk on instruments built from trash.
Gal Level
Gal Level is a Namibian R&B and afro-pop duo of singers Daphne Willibard and Freida Haindaka, formed in 2004 and known for Channel O awards before a 2013 break.
Gangwe Mobb
Gangwe Mobb is a Tanzanian hip-hop duo from Temeke, Dar es Salaam, made up of Inspector Haroun and Luteni Kalama, known for the 1996 hit "Mauzauza".
Geoffrey Oryema
Geoffrey Oryema (1953–2018) was a Ugandan-born singer-songwriter who fled Idi Amin's rule in 1977 for France, where his Brian Eno-produced debut Exile (1990) made him a world music figure.
Gigi (musician)
Gigi, born Ejigayehu Shibabaw in 1974, is an Ethiopian singer based in the United States whose Amharic singing, produced by Bill Laswell, fuses Ethiopian melody with dub and jazz.
Gloria Muliro
Gloria Muliro is a Kenyan gospel singer and songwriter from Vihiga county who broke through with the 2012 hit "Sitolia" and the 2013 album Kibali.
Godsfavour Chidozie
Godsfavour Chidozie, known professionally as Fave, is a Nigerian Afropop and R&B singer whose 2021 single "Baby Riddim" topped Nigeria's TurnTable chart, followed by the EP Riddim 5 in 2022.
Gospel (Nigerian)
Nigerian gospel is the gospel-music subscene of Nigerian popular music, a commercial lane whose "Way Maker" passed 100 million YouTube views and was translated into over 50 languages.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu
Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, born 1965, is a Nigerian politician who has served as Governor of Lagos State since 2019, first elected on the All Progressives Congress platform.
Grace Lokwa
Grace Lokwa is a Congolese gospel singer from the Democratic Republic of Congo, best known for the worship song "Kumama Papa eh," which went viral on TikTok in 2022.
H_art the Band
H_art the Band is a Kenyan Afro soul band from Nairobi formed in 2013, whose "Afro-Poetry" fusion of acoustics and spoken word broke through with "Uliza Kiatu" in 2014.