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

The Conversation - August 10, 2024

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,...

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

Rob Taylor Jr. - Courier Staff Writer - August 9, 2024

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...

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The mother of African dance at 80. Why Senegal’s Germaine Acogny is so influential

The Conversation - May 24, 2024

Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny in 2022. Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images by Lliane Loots, University of KwaZulu-Natal Africa’s most celebrated dancer and choreographer, Germaine Acogny, turns 80 on 28...

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

Courier Newsroom - July 16, 2022

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...

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