section_path: Traditional folk music/National and regional forms/Africa
section_name: Africa
paragraph_text: Africa
  
  Africa is a vast continent and its regions and nations have distinct musical traditions. The music of North Africa for the most part has a different history from Sub-Saharan African music traditions.
  
  The music and dance forms of the African diaspora, including African American music and many Caribbean genres like soca, calypso and Zouk; and Latin American music genres like the samba, Cuban rumba, salsa; and other clave (rhythm) -based genres, were founded to varying degrees on the music of enslaved Africans, which has in turn influenced African popular music.