Tiwa Savage delivers her highly anticipated fourth album, This One Is Personal, a project she has described as her most intimate work to date. Ghanaian star Gyakie also releases her debut album, After Midnight, a deeply personal project. Meanwhile, Nigerian superstar SPINALL drops his new album, Eko Groove, which captures the vibrant sounds of Lagos. […]
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a new direction for African popular music began to take shape. Artists from Ghana and Nigeria began fusing West African rhythms and melodies with hip-hop, R&B, dancehall and electronic music. The hybrid sound that emerged from that experimentation would later come to be known as Afrobeats, though at […]
Since Taves burst onto the scene with his debut EP The Nest: First Day Out in 2019, the rising Afro-fusion star has built a reputation for blending themes of love and youthful exuberance into infectious melodies. He reinforced that reputation with his 2024 EP Are You Listening? where he explored love, lust and the thrills […]
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Gigi Jasmine and Victory are the latest housemates to be evicted from the Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) “10/10” house, as the reality show enters its fifth week following its July 26 premiere. Longtime host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu announced their exits during the live eviction show on Sunday night. Victory was the first to leave, followed […]
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In Nigeria, kings are seen as the custodians of culture and tradition. This earns them wide respect, even beyond their own kingdoms. However, the revered positions of these traditional rulers have not prevented rivalries over history, territory, and prestige from erupting into the open, stripping away the mystique of the throne and exposing bitter […]
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Nigerian veteran Rudeboy returns with the new single “Under Pressure.” The UK and Nigeria collide on “Pay Me,” an explosive new track from ODUMODUBLVCK, Stormzy, and Zlatan. Blaqbonez also drops a new single, “Everlasting Taker,” as a lead-up to his upcoming album. Elsewhere, rap heavyweight Offset delivers KIARI, his long-awaited second solo album, which […]
Music has always travelled with experience with live performances being an essential companion of recorded sound, shaping not only how audiences connect with artists but how genres break borders. For Afrobeats, the West African-born sound now dominating charts and dance floors worldwide, festivals have become its most visible stages. While streaming platforms introduced the […]
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Afrobeats has never been one thing whether sonically or thematically. Its earliest iterations, drawn from R&B, Hip-Hop, Highlife, Reggae, Fuji, Dancehall and more, always carried two parallel instincts: the desire to move bodies and the need to tell hard truths. The same genre that gave us many groove-first hedonistic records also couched weary laments. Even […]
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Henceforth, Nigerians applying for a travel visa to the United States of America are required to provide the social media handles used over the past five years as part of the visa application process. Announcing the development on Monday, August 18, the United States Mission in Nigeria said that Nigerian visa applicants must provide a […]
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Do you know how exhausting it is to keep up with all the things women are supposed to do to be (and stay) beautiful? Shave your body hair, cover up your “blank fingernails,” keep your lashes full but not too fake, show up in a fresh bussdown wig or a silk press. Your breasts have […]
Since coming on the scene, we’ve watched Ghanaian-American artist Amaarae blend pop, hyperpop, alté, and Afropop in the most pleasant way. Her debut The Angel You Don’t Know announced her as a fearless alté-pop innovato. But the glossy Fountain Baby was more expansive and luxurious, mixing strings, punk, and global sounds into a critically acclaimed, genre-defying […]
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In recent weeks, Nigerian air travel has witnessed two major security incidents that gained widespread national attention and raised questions about adherence to aviation security. In one of the incidents, Fuji star Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as KWAM 1, was in a confrontation with airline staff and security officials at the Nnamdi Azikiwe […]
