The 40 Best Afropop Songs of 2022 – Rolling Stone

From Afrobeats to amapiano, R&B to rap, and gengetone to drill, these tracks broke barriers and crossed borders

Afropop — a catch-all term casting a wide net over the diverse musical approaches originating and dominating from Africa — has long been a center of the Black diasporic experience, from which so much of pop culture borrows. Every year, though, social and technological ingenuity and curiosity has made the world a little smaller and the influence of Afropop a lot greater….