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From Nigeria to the world: Afrobeats is having a global moment

From Nigeria to the world: Afrobeats is having a global moment

ANOTHER Grammy Awards season and there is a growing list of African nominees. For African music enthusiasts, it is heartwarming that recognition is being accorded to practitioners in the Afrobeats space. Afrobeat and Afrobeats, although related, are quite distinct. Afrobeats is the genre that emerged when West African pop music became cool. Its origins coincide with the media liberalisation that accompanied the “final” wave of democratisation in Africa from 1999. More than this, it is a convenient term for Europe to refer to music coming out of Africa, distinct from Euro-American pop. Author GARHE OSIEBE, Research Fellow, Rhodes University Afrobeat,…
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