Read the first part of this series on the pioneers of Igbo highlife music here. Igbo highlife provided comfort and hope for the Igbos, an ethnic group living mainly in southeastern Nigeria, after a ...

They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

To talk about the Igbo Highlife Music, we have to draw years back after the civil war from 1967-1970, the period which greatly influenced the music genre. It was a period when everybody believed the ...

With Akwete weaves, old-school George, hollandaise wrappers, isi agụ robes, coral beads and bold ichafu head ties, the event spotlighted a revival of post-colonial bridal aesthetics.

The World of Music, new series, Vol. 4, No. 2, Performing the New Diasporas: Contemporary African Ritual Music in North America (2015), pp. 99-118 (20 pages) Drawing from four years of active ...

Netizens react as a viral video shows Victor Osimhen joyfully singing Yinka Ayefele’s song in Yoruba at his child’s birthday.

Two different bands, each made up by two brothers, are keeping highlife music alive in Nigeria. Although Umu Obiligbo and the Cavemen have separate styles, these two bands are already building on the ...

In December 2020, as a veteran Nigerian artist and hitmaker, KCee made a surprising career move by releasing the now popular song, ‘Cultural Praise Vol. 1.’ It was a drastic departure from the ...