Donate to the African Music Library

Support our mission to preserve Africa's musical heritage and celebrate its diversity. Your donation will help us archive, standardize metadata, and expand access to African music through education programs.

Why Donate?

The nonprofit African Music Library provides the essential infrastructure for preserving and sharing Africa's rich musical heritage. We host an extensive collection of African music, archived, documented, and celebrated by enthusiasts and experts around the world, as well as many other vital community projects. All of this is made possible thanks to donations from individuals like you. We welcome anyone who shares our vision to join us in preserving and promoting the vibrant diversity of African music for future generations.

50 million+ Data Points

about songs, artists, and participants standardized and documented

110+ Genres

of African music studied, standardized, and documented

100+ Music Students

currently enrolled in our Foster program, in Nigeria and Uganda

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Technology

From editorial metadata to machine learning, our open-source technology makes accurate and comprehensive metadata and knowledge on African music and participants accessible worldwide.

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Education

Our education project, Foster, provides African music knowledge to underprivileged students across the continent, ensuring that the next generation appreciates and continues the musical traditions of their heritage.

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Research and Documentation

We conduct our own research and partner with researchers and copyright holders worldwide to address knowledge gaps and improve data quality in African music