Afrobeat is a style of African popular music. It mixes American funk — Black American dance music with a strong, repeating bass and drums — with West African drumming, horns, and singing. The songs can be very long, and they often talk back to power and politics. It grew in the late 1960s and 1970s, above all in Nigeria, and the musician Fela Kuti is the person most people connect with the name. You will meet the word in music writing, not in everyday school talk. Though actually, you will also see Afrobeats, with an extra s. That is a later, different kind of West African pop — the club sound of the 2010s and after. People, and even music sites, mix the two names up constantly. Afrobeat without s is the older funk-and-drum style; Afrobeats with s is the newer pop.

非洲節奏樂（音樂圈多直接說 Afrobeat）