17 jan 2018
Contemporary Nigerian pop albums are often characterised by shoddy songwriting and the presence of...
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Contributions article : IfeOluwa Nihinlola
03 jan 2018
Everything about Ajebutter22 is geared towards projecting an image of comfort. His name (one who...
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Ambitious artists try to make their music a consummate collection of thoughts and emotions...
27 déc 2017
If months were people, December would be the most Afropolitan of them all. On the night of the...
07 déc 2017
For those familiar with the singer’s work, publicity for the Catch a Vibe with Funbi concert...
27 nov 2017
Almost three months after the release of her critically acclaimed album Simisola , singer and...
17 nov 2017
Before the many sounds from across the continent played out at the All Africa Music awards' main...
03 nov 2017
You do not title your debut album New Era , as Kiss Daniel did, without dreams of the future. And...
01 nov 2017
The Jazz Party on 27 October, the penultimate event of the MUSON Festival, was occasion for guests...
30 oct 2017
The stories of our lives are best told in song. This was, perhaps, the thought behind My Kind of...
16 oct 2017
During Felabration , the New Afrikan Shrine is a kaledioscope of artists and performances. Rotate...
12 oct 2017
Following Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s death in 1997, Lagos TV stations were filled with tributes. For a...
26 sep 2017
Teni Entertainer’s ‘Fargin’ mines popular Nigerian sounds of old. This is in contrast with the mode...
22 sep 2017
Omawumi’s first two albums, Wonder Woman and Lasso of Truth , reference the same superhero . The...
19 sep 2017
The poster for the September edition of Afropolitan Vibes contained six images. A new artist from...
12 sep 2017
“See me, this is who I am,” artists often mean with eponymous albums, either as introduction—on...
08 sep 2017
Beyond the chest-beating, ego-stroking and expletive-laden emotional outbursts that occurred during...
31 aoû 2017
Olamide could phone it in the rest of his artistic career and he’ll still have passed the legendary...
25 aoû 2017
The first edition of BANTU ’s Lagos Concert Series, following their album release party, was held...
23 aoû 2017
The word Joromi will forever be tied to Sir Victor Uwaifo. But it’s hard to tell if on her new...