Nigeria’s Afrobeats stars love to identify with Fela’s activism and music - but their tributes are becoming opportunistic and empty.
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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.
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.
Ghana’s history shows a strong connection between music and politics that has evolved over six decades.
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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Lecturer, Theatre and Media Arts, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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Professor, Department of Music, University of Ghana
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Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, University of Kigali
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Visiting professor, Rhodes University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Music, University of Nigeria
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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
