Apple Music presents the Africa Now Best of 2021 roundup, featuring the continent’s freshest sounds. This exclusive playlist captures the lush entirety of the Pan-Africanist ideal and the biggest songs of the year from across the continent—from Wizkid and Tems’ Afrobeats megahit “Essence” and Busta 929’s amapiano anthem “Umsebenzi Wethu” to Gyakie and Omah Lay’s “Forever” and Nviiri The Storyteller’s “Niko Sawa”. Hear a 2021 essential you might have missed? Add it to your library.