People’s Democratic Party candidate Atiku Abubakar released a choreographed video to Davido’s Stand Strong, which references devotion. It’s his sixth time standing for president.
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Articles sur Afrobeat
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Afrobeats truly conquered the globe, influencing music styles, packing out stadiums and lifting awards.
Nigeria’s Afrobeats stars love to identify with Fela’s activism and music - but their tributes are becoming opportunistic and empty.
With his new album Love, Damini he has conquered the world. But how much of his creative soul does he have left?
Afrofusion is a music style that existed even before Burna Boy was born.
Nigerian popular music - Afrobeats - is storming the world’s stages. But it’s just the latest stage in a vibrant century of recorded music in the country.
The Afrobeat star used music to promote and preserve his Yoruba culture - while entertaining diverse global influences.
The man who taught Fela Kuti a thing or two has been all but erased from formal music history. He deserves much better treatment in death.
He played every venue that mattered, a global face of Afrobeat. Orlando Julius embodied the groove.
Of a record nine nominees, seven are from West Africa. The global rise of Afrobeats music owes its soul to Nigeria’s iconic star Fela Kuti.
Afrobeats emerged when West African pop music became cool. It has been boosted by the diaspora, big name collaborations and American culture.
A year later, it’s clear that the dance promotes a conscious concept of Africanity – sowing feelings of tolerance and contentment that have conquered international audiences.
Fela’s nomination and possible induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will come at a cost.
The truth remains that no artist through Nigeria’s postcolonial years has contributed close to what Fela did – and continues to do - for human rights and social justice.
When pop star D'banj signed up to help get Goodluck Jonathan elected president, fans turned on him. But a hit song turned things around.
Young Nigerians are protesting bad governance and police brutality. Where is the music to assist them?
How do elements of Fela Kuti’s music get reproduced by today’s pop musicians?
How do two artists from different ends of the world get inspired by the pioneer of Afrobeats?
Highlife champion Victor Olaiya will be missed for his affable personality and resplendent performance style.
Victor Abimbola Olaiya took up highlife music in the late 1950s and combined it with the trumpet to improve on its texture and aesthetic quality.
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Research Fellow, Rhodes University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, Theatre and Media Arts, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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University of Lagos
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Associate research scientist, Universidade de Lisboa
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Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, University of Kigali
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Visiting professor, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Music, University of Nigeria
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Professor of Fine Arts, University of Pretoria
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Reader, Development Economics in Africa and Director, African Leadership Centre, King's College London
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Chair of the Journalism Department, Texas Christian University
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Five College Professor of Music at Mount Holyoke College and the Five College Consortium (Amherst, Hampshire, Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst), USA., Mount Holyoke College
