In 2024, young North African musicians continue to reclaim and reinvent their cultural heritage, breaking the older generation’s focus on Western styles. While rap is the dominating sound across the region, throughout genres, artists fuse traditional instruments and local rhythms like Algerian raï or Egyptian Mahraganat with global musical influences like electronica and pop.
The region’s vast sonic landscape reflects North Africa’s musical heritage and the many possibilities for new sounds to emerge, and the variety of local…
