The Afrobeat star used music to promote and preserve his Yoruba culture - while entertaining diverse global influences.
- Lecturer, Theatre and Media Arts, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
Academics reflect on books on topical issues in Nigeria that they read in 2021.
Nigeria’s poet and playwright, John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo, died on October 13 aged 86
Victor Abimbola Olaiya took up highlife music in the late 1950s and combined it with the trumpet to improve on its texture and aesthetic quality.
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