Looking at the historical development of musical culture it can be seen that many nations participated in its creation. Music culture has evolved by interweaving different cultures and different nations, from which we conclude that music is a multicultural art. Awareness of our own cultural identity is developed by getting to know our own culture, and we get to know about other people's culture by listening to the music of other nations, which contributes to the development of interculturalism. Also, the teacher plays the most important role in developing the student's intercultural competence. This paper places an emphasis on the application of African music in the teaching of Music culture. African music is diverse as its culture and nations, and has flourished in many autonomous forms and is shaped by various influences. Besides, music is a part of the everyday life of African population. Within the research part of this paper, research was conducted at the Elementary School "Antun and Stjepan Radić" in Gunja. The research was conducted during the second half of the school year 2016/2017 in the fifth and sixth grade. The purpose of the research was to determine how much the students are interested in African music and the world music in general, and what impression did the African music leave. The results showed that the students liked the teaching enriched by getting acquainted with African music and culture and they were also interested in getting to know other musical and cultural traditions from all continents. We believe that these results could be guidelines for progress in music curriculum and textbook creation, but also for different approaches of music teachers to teaching music. The approach that would surely contribute to the development of the intercultural competence of students of modern, contemporary schools.