Some dance crazes last barely longer than the time it takes to flip to another radio station. Others prompt Mexican waves of booty–shaking across borders. Ghana's azonto, in which the dancers mime ...

Our hearts will not beat with the tensions of the impending elections but with the pulsating rhythms of azonto. Whether you believe it or not, azonto is a new definition of Ghana’s nucleus; a perfect ...

Hiplife star and Ghana’s King of Azonto has been contracted to teach the proper way to dance Azonto at all Airtel Rising Stars events around the country. Gasmilla, often described as the inventor of ...

Fresh from his Jingle Bell Ball debut, the Ghanaian rapper teaches Capital's Roman Kemp how to do his trademark dance! After nailing his four-track set at London's O2 Arena, Fuse ODG turned from ...

Over the past year a new dance craze has popped onto the Ghanaian music scene and has been making waves across West Africa and beyond. Azonto fever has gripped diaspora communities in the USA and in ...

The dances are often very simple at the base level, with freestyle options that have the potential to catapult a song (and a dancer) to new heights. With endless ways to showcase individuality, there ...

Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Emmanuel Samini’s subtle attack on Nigerian music duo, P-Square for stealing Ghana's dance craze Azonto, has ruffled some feathers in Africa's most populous nation.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Azonto is a Ghanaian urban dance craze whose popularity is built through its global circulation. I trace its production and flow across ...