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Music · June, 2022

Stories about Music from June, 2022

Celebrating the Kenyan poet, Grandmaster Masese who preserved the Abagusii culture through poetry and song

Masese worked his whole life to preserve the Gusii culture

Written by Njeri Wangari

28 June 2022

Nigerian highlife music scene gets a makeover by two brother duos

Umu Obiligbo refreshed the past and the Cavemen modernized it

Written by Chikwado Edeh

27 June 2022

How Flavour and Phyno pioneered the revival of Nigeria's Igbo highlife music

Their dynamism made highlife music popular again with young people

Written by Chikwado Edeh

21 June 2022

Celestine Ukwu: the Nigerian philosopher-musician who left his mark on Igbo highlife

His prodigious talent was cut short in a car crash

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike

15 June 2022

How Nigeria’s Igbo highlife music provided hope after a devastating civil war

The philosophy and lyrics expressed the identity of the people

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike

9 June 2022

The pioneers of Nigeria's Igbo highlife music

Nigeria's highlife music has emphatically enunciated the joy of living

Written by Chikwado Edeh, Nwachukwu Egbunike

8 June 2022

The history of music in Lagos, Nigeria: 1980s to the 2000s

Contemporary Nigerian music, like its forebears, exists mostly for dance

Written by Dami Ajayi

1 June 2022

The history of music in Lagos, Nigeria: from colonial times to the 1970s

“Colonial accounts of pre-colonial music are either sparse or glib”

Written by Dami Ajayi

1 June 2022

Meet the new generation of Kenyan women sparking a vinyl resurgence in Africa

The last Kenyan vinyl pressing plant shut down 33 years ago

Written by Njeri Wangari

1 June 2022

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