Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

The Lagos Nightclub where Afrobeat was born

On certain Lagos nights in the late 1960s, the city pulsed with a sound that was neither highlife nor jazz,…

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How MKO Abiola won the Streets with King Sunny Ade’s music

Lagos in 1993 did not sleep easily. The city was loud, restless, vibrating like a drum stretched too tight. Taxi…

The night Fela’s saxophone defied Soldiers and set Lagos on fire

Afrobeat did not emerge in isolation; it was forged in the turbulence of postcolonial Nigeria, where music, politics, and power…

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