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Wale Oloworekende

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Examining Wande Coal’s Influence on Afropop’s Golden Age

Examining Wande Coal’s Influence on Afropop’s Golden Age

Tucked into Adedamola, Fireboy’s latest album, the YBNL singer pays homage to Afropop ace Wande Coal with the aptly titled Wande’s Bop, surfing on a beat that looks cross-bred from Ashimapeyin and The Kick from many years ago. It is the second time the former Mohits star is getting such a reference from an artist […]

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Examining Wande Coal’s Influence on Afropop’s Golden Age

Tucked into Adedamola, Fireboy’s latest album, the YBNL singer pays homage to Afropop ace Wande Coal with the aptly titled Wande’s Bop, surfing on a beat that looks cross-bred from Ashimapeyin and The Kick from many years ago. It is the second time the former Mohits star is getting such a reference from an artist […]

Patrick Ezema

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3 weeks ago

Examining Wande Coal’s Influence on Afropop’s Golden Age

My Life in Nollywood: Debo Johnson

Every week, Culture Custodian grants you an all-access backstage pass into the lives of Nollywood rockstars. You get to hear their fascinating background, behind the scenes stories and more. We start with Nigerian film producer and location scout Debo Johnson as he takes us into his life in Nollywood: You went to Film School in […]

Wale Oloworekende

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3 years ago

My Life in Nollywood: Debo Johnson

Jody Wants You To Remember Him

The streets of Lagos are populated with people who see music as a passion. They see it as an art with which to change the world and ensure that their names live on long after them. Jody is one of the dreamers. When we talk over the phone about what he wants to achieve with […]

Wale Oloworekende

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3 years ago

Jody Wants You To Remember Him

Da Grin Made It Okay To Rap In Yoruba – And Other Indigenous Languages

Yoruba – indigenous – rap became ubiquitous in the 2010s, but it wasn’t always that way. Nigerian hip-hop has constantly been at unrest with its identity from the start point, flitting and flapping, unsure of what linguistical medium best represents the ideal of its collective expression. The parameters of what constitutes puritan hip-hop, the ghosts […]

Wale Oloworekende

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5 years ago

Da Grin Made It Okay To Rap In Yoruba – And Other Indigenous Languages

Cent Remmy Flexes Pop Credo on ‘Aye’

The increasing democratization of Nigeria’s music space means that artistes who deliver entirely or significantly in local dialects will always have a path into the mainstream if their music connects with the right audience. Aye by Cent Remmy builds impressively on that formula as he attempts to navigate a path into the mainstream. The subject […]

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5 years ago

Cent Remmy Flexes Pop Credo on ‘Aye’

Damola Davis Confronts A Complicated Relationship on ‘Vacationship’

Complicated relationships are an unavoidable side-effect of living that affects everyone. In his latest single, up-and-coming Damola Davis, playfully confronts the angst and emotional turmoil of romance on Vacationship. Built around sinewy, springy piano chords, Damola Davis, ironically, creates a vibrant homage to the transactional nature of the depicted relationship. The overall airy vibe of […]

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5 years ago

Damola Davis Confronts A Complicated Relationship on ‘Vacationship’

Yinka Oshodi Brings Lustrous Energy To ‘On Your Way’

The farther you look away from the Nigerian mainstream, the more cohesive and symmetrically attuned the music starts to feel and sound. The new Yinka Oshodi single, On Your Way, disavows the frenzied scattergun pace of usual pop and aims for the shadowy, smoky distillation of R&B that has become standard since the 2010s. On […]

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5 years ago

Yinka Oshodi Brings Lustrous Energy To ‘On Your Way’
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