From Fela Kuti to Rema:How Afrobeats Became a Global Sound

Play Fela Kuti’s Water No Get Enemy and then Rema’s Calm Down. The songs come from different generations and sound very different, but together they tell part of a bigger story about the rise of West African music. That story stretches from highlife and juju to Fela’s Afrobeat, the Nigerian pop boom of the 2000s […]

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