From a Canadian Embassy partnership in Lagos to stages in New York, Atlanta, Winnipeg, and Toronto, the Afrobeat pioneer is building a diplomatic cultural movement that governments are taking ...

In 1976, Fela Kuti's song "Zombie" became a powerful protest against Nigeria's military rule. The military had been in power ...

Afrobeat sensation Dalyboy is capturing the hearts of music lovers with his latest release, ‘Obim,’ a soulful Afro-love anthem that ...

The people loved seeing an Englishman in Africa 70. They couldn’t believe it at first. Oyinbo (white man) drummer! They would come and press money on my forehead. It was a mark of approval. It would ...

Trisyo and Supa Massie, the musicians behind rising Afrobeat group The Afroseas, look right at home among the recording equipment and sofas of their 12th-floor studio in Diamond Hill, in Hong Kong’s ...

On 18 February 1977 a thousand soldiers from the Nigerian army stormed a communal compound in Lagos that outlaw bandleader Fela Kuti had declared his own independent state: the Kalakuta Republic. They ...

Nigerian musical deity and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti was not born to live an ordinary life, and he knew it. In his biography by Carlos Moore, Fela stated that from the moment he drew his ...

The Philharmonie de Paris is devoting an exhibition to the king of Afrobeat. Produced in close collaboration with his immediate friends and family, it fervently conveys the Nigerian musician’s sense ...

Music was invented/discovered. About 60000 years passed and these Nigerian geniuses Fela and Tony came to LA and fell in love with Black American Music, so they fused it with High Life and Yoruba ...