Celebrating the Kenyan poet, Grandmaster Masese who preserved the Abagusii culture through poetry and songMasese worked his whole life to preserve the Gusii cultureWritten by Njeri Wangari28 June 2022
Nigerian highlife music scene gets a makeover by two brother duosUmu Obiligbo refreshed the past and the Cavemen modernized itWritten by Chikwado Edeh27 June 2022
How Flavour and Phyno pioneered the revival of Nigeria's Igbo highlife musicTheir dynamism made highlife music popular again with young peopleWritten by Chikwado Edeh21 June 2022
Celestine Ukwu: the Nigerian philosopher-musician who left his mark on Igbo highlifeHis prodigious talent was cut short in a car crashWritten by Nwachukwu Egbunike15 June 2022
How Nigeria’s Igbo highlife music provided hope after a devastating civil warThe philosophy and lyrics expressed the identity of the peopleWritten by Nwachukwu Egbunike9 June 2022
The pioneers of Nigeria's Igbo highlife musicNigeria's highlife music has emphatically enunciated the joy of livingWritten by Chikwado Edeh, Nwachukwu Egbunike8 June 2022
The history of music in Lagos, Nigeria: 1980s to the 2000s Contemporary Nigerian music, like its forebears, exists mostly for danceWritten by Dami Ajayi1 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 Ajayi1 June 2022
Meet the new generation of Kenyan women sparking a vinyl resurgence in AfricaThe last Kenyan vinyl pressing plant shut down 33 years agoWritten by Njeri Wangari1 June 2022