Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Seun Kuti reacts to Korra Obidi’s twerking tribute at Fela’s grave

Seun Kuti, Nigerian musician and youngest son of the late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, has reacted to the viral video…

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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,…

Majek Fashek and the Rain that never stopped falling

There are nights in Nigeria’s memory where music and weather blur, when sound seems to summon sky. Among those nights,…

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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