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Nigerian music history and genres, notable musicians, Nollywood film, and the entertainment industry's structure.
- Music History & Genres
- Notable Musicians
- Film — Nollywood
- Industry Structure
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Fuji is a Yorùbá popular genre built on Islamic praise-chant traditions performed to wake worshippers before dawn during Ramadan. Sikiru Ayinde Barrister converted that…
Jùjú is a Yorùbá popular-music genre that emerged in 1920s Lagos, when guitarist Tunde King fused Yoruba percussion and praise-singing with guitar, banjo and…
King Sunny Adé (born Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, September 1946, Oshogbo) is a Nigerian bandleader who built [[juju-music]] into an internationally successful genre. His 1982…
Nollywood's Shift to Streaming
Netflix and Amazon Prime Video invested heavily in Nollywood from the mid-2010s, commissioning originals and licensing hundreds of titles, before both scaled back sharply…
Afrobeats: Origins and Global Rise
Afrobeats is a contemporary West African pop umbrella genre, distinct from Fela Kuti's 1970s Afrobeat, that emerged from Lagos and Accra club culture in…
Highlife is a West African dance-band genre that originated among coastal brass bands in Ghana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fusing…
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938–1997) was a Nigerian musician and activist who created Afrobeat, fusing highlife, jazz and funk with Yoruba rhythms and confrontational political…
Nollywood, Nigeria's video-led film industry, is popularly dated to the 1992 direct-to-video hit Living in Bondage, though critics document earlier Yoruba-language cinema and home…