Home › Entities › music_genre › Afrobeat

Afrobeat

music genre
Intangible music_genre Q388296
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Afrobeat

Summary

Afrobeat is a music genre[1]. Afrobeat draws 1,566 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #231 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • Afrobeat's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • Afrobeat is a type of music of West Africa[4].
  • Afrobeat's Commons category is recorded as Afrobeat[5].
  • 1970 marks the founding of Afrobeat[6].
  • Afrobeat's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Afrobeat[7].
  • Afrobeat's different from is recorded as Afrobeats[8].

Body

Definition and Type

Afrobeat's instance of is recorded as music genre[3]. Afrobeat is a type of music of West Africa[4].

Origins

1970 marks the founding of Afrobeat[6].

Why It Matters

Afrobeat draws 1,566 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #231 of 1,946).[2] Afrobeat has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] Afrobeat is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

Boris Ket Fela Kuti Manu Dibango Tems Youssou N’Dour

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Afrobeat. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/afrobeat
MLA “Afrobeat.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/afrobeat.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_afrobeat_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Afrobeat}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/afrobeat}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Afrobeat — https://4ort.xyz/entity/afrobeat (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/afrobeat · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Inception → +1970-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Subclass of → music of West Africa
    Subclass of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007554090605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.