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Fela Kuti is more famous today than ever – what’s behind his global power

The cast of the Broadway musical Fela! perform in Lagos. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images Alaba Ilesanmi, Florida State University Almost three decades after his passing in 1997,...

Lil’ Wayne, other U.S. artists see the power of Afrobeats and its audience

LIL’ WAYNE The music genre "Afrobeats" has become so mainstream, that "mainstream" artists, or those who are most likely from the U.S. and aren't...

Coming In Hot: These Afrobeats stars are set to light up the summer

Afrobeats stars Rema, Amaarae, Asake and Ayra Starr are coming to Afro Nation Detroit (Credit: X, Facebook, Capital FM Kenya).  If Black life had a...

100 years of pop music in Nigeria: what shaped four eras

by Chijioke Ngobili, University of Nigeria The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the early months of 2020 shut down nearly all physical and...

Orlando Julius, Nigeria’s Afrobeat pioneer, lived for his art

by Sanya Osha, University of Cape Town Orlando Julius (Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode), who passed on 15 April 2022, lived the sort of life...

From Nigeria to the world: Afrobeats is having a global moment

by Garhe Osiebe, Rhodes University Another Grammy Awards season and there is a growing list of African nominees. For African music enthusiasts, it is heartwarming...

Sundance announces 2014 premiere lineup

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival will premiere 117 independent feature films and 11 documentaries at its 30th anniversary next month —...

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