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Nigerian Singer Olamide Hints Retirement
On February 5, 2022, Nigerian singer and rapper Olamide announced the release of his 12th studio album while hinting at his retirement. This is what he said in a tweet that reads ” Next Album Unruly 95% ready. Release date = I don’t know Taking my time to make it… Listen ⇢
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Tobi Bolaji Wants to Add More Beauty to the World With His Arts
My artistic career began in 2005. That was the time when I used whatever paint I could find and any brush I could get my hands on. Later that year, a family friend suggested that I attend a Nike art workshop to learn more.I was an apprentice in the workshop… Listen ⇢
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How Tiktok Have Helped Pushed African Music to a Worldwide Audience
This significant advancement in the digitalization of music has resulted in the advent of the social media era, which has had a significant impact on how we consume music and where or what type of music we want to consume. Social media has had a significant impact on the success… Listen ⇢
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Hubert Ogunde – the Colossus of African Theatre
Hubert Adedeji Ogunde was a colossus whose many works of art questioned the malfeasance of government officials. Ogunde was imprisoned several times for advocating on behalf of the masses. Hubert ogunde was a teacher, a cop, a teetotaler, a human rights activist, a seer, a prophet, a folklorist, a Nigerian… Listen ⇢
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How the Yoruba Population Assisted in Selling Afrobeat Popularity
Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with many distinct musical traditions among regions and nations. African music comprise Jùju, Fuji, Highlife, Makossa, Kizomba, Afrobeats, and other genres. Afrobeats seems to be the biggest and most popular. Afrobeat emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as a… Listen ⇢
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10 African Music Legends You Should Know
African music, as well as the musical sounds and practises of all African indigenous peoples pervades African life and serves a purpose, playing a role in society; songs are used for religious ceremonies and rituals, to teach and guide, to tell stories, to mark the stages of life and death,… Listen ⇢
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Fela Kuti’s Kalakuta Queens – Afrobeat Forgotten Heroes
Afrobeat today can be credited to one man, Fela Kuti. the genre emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as a fusion of traditional Yoruba music with jazz, West African highlife, and funk. Fela Kuti, a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, coined the term in the 1960s and is credited with popularising… Listen ⇢
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