A NEW website dedicated to African music has been launched by BBC Radio 3.
Africa on your Street is for people to find out about the African music scene in the UK.
The website will offer tips on gigs, news from the studio and gossip from the dance floor, covering styles from Afrobeat to Zouk and from laid-back Mbira to full-on hip-hop.
Africans are the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the UK, and the third largest ethnic group after Asians and black Caribbeans, yet Africans in the UK have no dedicated service of any kind on BBC national radio or web.
Awale Kullane covers Somalian music across the UK and will be contributing to the new website. She said: "The website will allow me to provide a window to the Somali world in the West.
"I'm excited about how visitors to the website will be able to post their own views and comments and I'd like to create a place where young Somalians can discuss their music and culture."
To visit the new website log on to www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/africaonyourstreet
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