Nigerian music is deep. In fact, it is some of the deepest music that I have listened. But you are too simple to understand. Wizkid You Nigerians are funny people. You pretend to be who you are not.

Though “Essence” swung open the gates, Wizkid’s progeny like Tems, Asake, and Rema have seemed to bound past him at times. His two albums that followed Made in Lagos – More Love, Less Ego and Morayo – ...

It seems like there’s nothing Nigerian music star Simi can’t do. A singer, songwriter, and one of the few women mixing and producing their own music, Simi is setting the stage for the future of ...

When Dancehall star Buju Banton tackled Afrobeats for lacking substance, many observers and commentators including this writer pointed out how the Jamaican erred in comparing the dominant theme of ...

The musician and performer who has been classed as an alternative music artist was asked to describe what pop music means to her. She describes pop music as popular music while other people also see ...

Taiwo and Kehinde were groundbreaking for their funky songs, as well as their feminism. Five years after Kehinde’s death, their albums will be reissued. By Mike Rubin High above Harlem in early August ...

In an extraordinary feat that has stunned the Nigerian music scene, 14-year-old Champz, the son of Afrobeats icon Wizkid, has ...

New 'Basslines to Billions' report published by Regalstone Capital in partnership with Nigeria’s National Council for Arts and Culture.

Spotify, a global online music streaming platform, says it paid more than N25 billion to Nigerian artistes as royalties in 2023. Jocelyne Muhutu-Remy, Spotify’s Managing Director for Sub-Saharan ...

Title on box: Konkombe : the Nigerian pop music scene. "Shanachie 1201."--Box. "SH-1201"--Box. Jumoke Debayo, Willie Payne, Alex Tetteh-Lartey. Filmed in Nigeria, 1979. Summary A kaleidoscope of ...

Austin Emielu is affiliated with Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa as Visiting Professor. The news of the death of Nigerian musician Onyeka Onwenu on 30 July 2024 hit me, as a musician and ...

When Wizkid: Long Live Lagos hits HBO Max, Afrobeats fans around the world may feel like a part of something bigger In fact, most of the film seems to be narrated by people in Wizkid’s orbit, rather ...