Spotify is launching a dedicated Afrobeats hub on its service, offering a mixture of playlists, podcasts, articles and videos.
Called simply ‘Afro’ it’s partly a window for Spotify’s key playlists in and around the genre: ‘African Heat’, ‘Afropop’, ‘Motive’, ‘We Everywhere’ and ‘Essence’ are among those showcased prominently.
The hub also shows new releases, and also casts its net wider than purely Afrobeats with playlists for Bongo Flava, Gengetone, Kwaito and other genres/scenes.
The hub’s…