From Juju to Afrobeats: Charting the Last 100 Years of Nigerian Pop Music - The Wire

Since the birth of Nigeria as a nation and the subsequent emergence of national popular music, four eras of pop can be charted based on socioeconomic and political events, trends and choices.

The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the early months of 2020 shut down nearly all physical and social human activities. For musical practice this meant near death. Performing music is, af… [+7725 chars]

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