Afrobeats

Afrobeats is the sound that turned West African pop into a global export, and East Africa has made it its own. Built on bouncy, syncopated drum patterns, warm basslines and log drums borrowed from amapiano, it sits somewhere between the dance floor and the radio. Hooks are short and sung, verses mix English with Sheng, Swahili, Pidgin and local languages, and the tempo is relaxed enough to dance to all night.

On Ziki you'll find Afrobeats from independent Kenyan and East African artists: love songs, club records, wedding anthems and slow-burning late-night cuts. Many producers here blend Afrobeats with Bongo Flava, Gengetone or RnB, so expect crossovers alongside the straight-ahead grooves.

Use this page to catch new releases the day they drop, play the most-streamed Afrobeats tracks right now, and follow the artists you like so their next song lands in your library. Every track streams free, and many can be downloaded or bought straight from the artist. If you make Afrobeats yourself, upload it to Ziki and it will appear here for listeners browsing the genre.