https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/black-composers-who-made-classical-music-history/


https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jun/02/ten-black-composers-whose-works-deserve-to-be-heard-more-often


Now you may say that most of these black composers composed music in a western style, and that is true. But some of them, Coleridge-Taylor for one, did incorporate African themes into their western compositions.

Nevertheless our knowledge and awareness of genuine African music is really pretty poor. For avoidance of doubt, Jazz and Blues are not African music.