Who Is Rania Aniftos? Afrobeat Article Receiving Controversy On Twitter
James Bradley
Published Feb 26, 2026
Rania Aniftos is a Billboard staff writer who started as an editorial intern in 2017 and has been writing for Billboard.com ever since.
Rania Aniftos has been a Billboard staff writer since 2017 and has written for Billboard.com.
Rania Aniftos, a member of the Billboard crew, has been embroiled in controversy, and the world has previously spoken out against the author of a recent Billboard article about Afrobeat.
Who Is Rania Aniftos?
Rania Aniftos was a Billboard.com editorial intern in 2017 and is now a Billboard staff writer.
She earned a B.A. in journalism with a minor in the music industry from the University of Southern California (Class of 2017).
Rania is obsessed with all things pop, rock, and lifestyle, from interviewing musicians like Christina Aguilera and HAIM about their current projects to looking into the latest social media and fashion trends.
She is a music journalist located in Los Angeles who was born in New York and has published numerous stories about pop, rock, and lifestyle.
Rania enjoys discussing the finest bagel in NYC, the intricacies of astrological charts, and everything else when she isn’t writing.
Rania Aniftos Afrobeat Article Controversy
People are talking about Rania’s afrobeat article on Billboard, which has gone viral.
Billboard Teams Up With Afro Nation to Launch New U.S. Afrobeats Songs Chart, which she wrote, has gone viral.
@iprinceofficia, a Twitter user, wrote “Rania Aniftos the writer of that article for Billboard might be a racist after all. Otherwise, I don’t see why she would give credit to Beyonce for Afrobeat going mainstream while ignoring artists like Davido that worked so hard to take it mainstream.”
On Twitter people have been commenting about Rania and has posted many Tweet about her.
On the 29th of March, Billboard debuted the first-ever AfroBeats chart.
Beyoncé has been acknowledged as one of the musicians who helped AfroBeat gain popularity around the world.
Rania Aniftos Age & Wikipedia
Rania Aniftos was born in New York. She hasn’t revealed her birth date to the public.
However, based on her photo, she appears to be between the ages of 25-30. This is simply a guess at her age.
Her name does not appear on the official Wikipedia page. Rania is a staff writer for Billboard.
The music journalist, who was born in New York now lives in Los Angeles, is the proud daughter of Greek-Cypriot immigrants.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and has prior job experience.
She interned at Giorgio Armani in Public Relations, Harper’s Bazaar in Fashion Features, and iHeartMedia in Marketing.
She worked at Ticketmaster as an associate media manager from May 2017 to May 2018, and she is now a staff writer at Billboard.