in this photo taken Wednesday, April 3, 2013, a Kenyan instrumentalist plays guitar at the first international music festival held for decades in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Reconciliation Music Festival, ...

The Somali capital of Mogadishu is set to host its biggest music festival in over two decades The Mogadishu Music Festival is aiming to rally would-be fighters to peacefully resist extremism The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Take some anti-jihadist courage and mix it with musical talent and what do you get? An Islamist-fighting hip hop group, apparently. Enter Waayaha Cusub (which means “New Era” or “New Dawn”), an ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In a classroom in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, members of the Somali hip-hop group Waayaha Cusub started singing. A few boys tumbled into the room, then grew quiet as ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Upon entering a tiny recording studio in a grimy Nairobi building, Felis removes her face veil, slides headphones onto her ears and ...

A Somali hip-hop collective will perform and participate in a Central Minnesota residency in October, staff from Paramount Arts announced this week. Waayaha Cusub, which means "new era," will in be St ...

When Shiine Akhyaar Ali took to the stage in Mogadishu this week, it was the first time the Somali rap star had performed in his former hometown. It was also the capital's first proper music festival ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 11 (UNHCR) - A group of Somali refugee musicians in the Kenyan capital Nairobi have ruffled a few feathers with their flouting of conservative traditions and their songs on ...

The Somali capital of Mogadishu is set to host its biggest music festival in over two decades The Mogadishu Music Festival is aiming to rally would-be fighters to peacefully resist extremism The ...