nigeria

The resurgence of Benin sound

[Don't mix the Beninese Republic, with Benin City in Edo State in Nigeria]

Read: Musical traditions and language from Edo State have moved from the margins of Nigeria's national (and international) culture to the center.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/06/the-resurgence-of-benin-sound

Listen: Respect Ur Elders By 2Rymce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plmB4GmCYlE (link not broken)

On AMF: Edo Funk Explosion https://amf.didiermary.fr/edo-funk-explosion/

#Nigeria #AIAC

Uselu Motor Park

https://amf.didiermary.fr/uselu-motor-park/

Edo Funk / Benin City, anyone?

Here’s “Uselu Motor Park” by the Drivers Union Dance Band & Osaro Nomayo, released in 1978. The album blends highlife rhythms with local influences, creating a lively and engaging musical experience.

David Osaro Nomayo (1956-2002), the lead figure in the band, contributes to its distinct sound and success in […]

#70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

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Ibibio Sound Machine live

https://amf.didiermary.fr/ibibio-sound-machine-live/

Fronted by London-born Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West-African funk & disco and modern post-punk & electro.

Weird and wonderful folk stories, recounted to Eno by her family as a child in her mother’s Ibibio tongue, […]

#LiveMusic #Nigeria

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Asa – Dead again

https://amf.didiermary.fr/dead-again-asa/

Asa‘s third studio album, Bed of Stone, was released in August 2014, with a folk sound similar to her previous albums Beautiful Imperfection and Aṣa. “Dead again” is the opening track.

Its lead single, “Dead Again” was released in May, 2014, while a clip video was broadcast the same day. The song is a piano […]

#Nigeria

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Ladipoe, Maglera Doe Boy - Motho Waka

Lyric Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk1jdel7jsc

Official Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdLcAxBUXGQ

#Nigeria #SouthAfrica #Rap

Lagos All Routes

https://amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-all-routes/

Lagos All Routes (Juju, Highlife, Apala and Fuji) is a compilation of Nigerian music from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, often considered the ‘golden age’ of African popular music. In Nigerian pidgin English, ‘chop-up’ makes figurative reference to a bountiful feast.

‘Lagos All Routes’ refers to the fact that while the [...]

#60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Fuji #Highlife #JùjúMusic #Nigeria #Remixed #OldAfricanMusic

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Super Negro Bantous

https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-negro-bantous/

Despite their Congolese-sounding name, Super Negro Bantous were a renowned Igbo band led by Elah Elvis, recording at least seven albums for Rogers All Stars while combining highlife, soukous and folk music.

The four songs on this self-titled album are sung in Pidgin English. [...]

#70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Soukous #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic

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Tunde Williams – Mr. Big Mouth

https://amf.didiermary.fr/tunde-williams-africa70-big-mouth/

From “Tunde Williams plays with the Africa 70” – Mr. Big Mouth released in 1977.

[…] Tunde joined Fela’s Koola Lobitos as a trumpeter in late 1967, and remained with Fela through 1978, when he and several other bandmembers left the group acrimoniously following the Berlin Jazz Festival in September of that year. In Afrika 70 […]

#70smusic #FelaKuti #Nigeria #Afrobeat

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Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit

https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-expensive-shit-water-no-get-enemy/

The song refers to an incident in 1974 in which the Nigerian police planted a hemp joint on Fela Kuti in order to arrest him for narcotics charges. As the police converged upon his compound, Fela ate the joint. He was taken to a police station, so that they could “test” him for THC the […]

#70smusic #FelaKuti #Nigeria #Afrobeat

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Fela Kuti – Waka Waka

https://amf.didiermary.fr/waka-waka-fela-ransome-kuti/

“Waka Waka” and “Se E Tun De” on this 45T from the sixties by Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos.

There’s a live version on the 3-disc set Highlife: Jazz and AfroSoul (1963-1969) below.

A collection of recordings made between 1963 and 1969 that provide unique insight into the beginnings of Kuti’s craft. […]

#60smusic #Compilation #FelaKuti #Highlife #Jazz #Nigeria #AfroJazz

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Lagos Baby 1963-1969

https://amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-baby-1963-1969/

Some of Fela Kuti’s earliest recordings, with the Koola Lobitos band, are featured on the compilation Lagos Baby: 1963-1969, but the music he played at the time stretches from mostly fairly classic Highlife music to variations of jazzy-bluesy Highlife… […]

#60smusic #FelaKuti #Highlife #LiveMusic #Nigeria

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Tunde Nightingale & His Highlife Boys – Omo Lafiah / Araba

https://amf.didiermary.fr/tunde-nightingale-his-highlife-boys-omo-lafiaji-araba/

Earnest Olatunde Thomas, known as Tunde Nightingale, was a Nigerian singer and guitarist, best known for his unique Jùjú music style, following in the tradition of Tunde King…

#60smusic #Highlife #JujuMusic #Nigeria

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Sahara All Stars of Jos

https://amf.didiermary.fr/sahara-all-stars-band-jos/

The Sahara All Stars of Jos were based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria, far from Lagos. Dan Satch Ayo who led the band, had played with Dr Sir Warrior, a Nigerian Igbo highlife musical prodigy, guitarist, one of the pioneers of […]

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Highlife #Nigeria #AfroBeat

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Nigeria Disco Funk Special

https://amf.didiermary.fr/nigeria-disco-funk-special/

“Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79” is a compilation released in 2008.

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Disco #Nigeria

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M.anifest – Simple Love

https://amf.didiermary.fr/manifest-simple-love/

Follow a ballet dancer as she navigates her way through crowded streets and a market in slow-motion in “Simple Love,” a short film by M.anifest in 2018, with dancer Angelica Kankam.

#Ghana #Nigeria

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William Onyeabor – Atomic Bomb

https://amf.didiermary.fr/william-onyeabor-atomic-bomb/

Atomic Bomb, by the “mysterious” William Onyeabor, pioneer of electronic music in Nigeria…

#AfroFunk #Disco #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

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William Onyeabor, pioneer of Electronic Music in Nigeria, has a fascinating story…
Watch the documentary below…

https://amf.didiermary.fr/william-onyeabor-pioneer-electronic-music-nigeria/

Little is known about William Onyeabor, and that’s the way he likes it.
Sure, you might hear something about him if you go to Enugu, a rural and isolated town in Eastern Nigeria, where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods. As a crowned […]

#AfroFunk #Documentary #Nigeria #Electro

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Ghetto Blaster live (rare)

https://amf.didiermary.fr/rare-ghetto-blaster-live/

The Ghetto Blaster adventure starts in 1983, when two French musicians (Romain Pugebet and Stéphane Blaes) asked Pascal Imbert to produce them. He decided to go with them to Lagos, Nigeria, by car in order to make a record with the musicians he knew there.

This trip from Paris to Lagos was filmed as a […]

#80smusic #Cameroon #LiveMusic #Nigeria

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Anything You Sow – William Onyeabor

https://amf.didiermary.fr/anything-you-sow-william-onyeabor/

“Anything you sow” is one of the reissued albums by William Onyeabor, the pioneer of electronic music from Nigeria.

"Anything You Sow" was his last album before he gave his life over to Christ, turning his back on his musical output.

A 9xCD box set that collects the entirety of Onyeabor’s recorded output was released […]

#70smusic #80smusic #Nigeria #Electro

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Oliver De Coque & his Expo 76

https://amf.didiermary.fr/oliver-de-coque-expo-76/

Oliver Sunday Akanite (14 April 1947 – 20 June 2008), better known by the stage name Oliver De Coque, was a Nigerian Igbo highlife musician, composer and guitarist and one of Africa’s most prolific recording artists spanning over four decades of the highlife music scene. His extensive use of Igbo traditional rhythms and the fusion […]

#Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

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Ali Chukus and His Peace Makers Dance Band

https://amf.didiermary.fr/ali-chukus-peace-makers-dance-band/

Ali Chukwuma, under the nickname “Ali Chukus,” probably for his first album with the Peace Makers Dance Band in 1975. […]

#70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic

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Muyiwa Kunnuji & Osemako

https://amf.didiermary.fr/muyiwa-kunnuji-osemako/

Baptized into the style of the precursors of 50s to 90s, Muyiwa Kunnuji is influenced by Afrobeat, Highlife, the Yoruba & Ogu rhythms, Jazz, Blues, Gospel.

Muyiwa, a self-taught trumpeter, has played with Fela Kuti, later on Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Tony Allen & many other bands of note. He has launched his band in […]

#Highlife #LiveMusic #Nigeria #Afrobeat

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Highlife Time

https://amf.didiermary.fr/highlife-time/

“Highlife Time – Nigerian and Ghanaian Sound from the 60s and Early 70s” a 2xCD or 2xLP compilation by Vampi Soul.

Highlife, dance music played mostly in Ghana and Nigeria, represents one of the century’s first fusions of African roots and western music, and before 1970 it ruled dancefloors across much of West Africa. […]

#60smusic #70smusic #FullAlbum #Ghana #Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

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Doing It In Lagos

https://amf.didiermary.fr/doing-lagos-boogie-pop-disco/

Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980’s Nigeria

#80smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Disco #FullAlbum #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

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Sai Galaxy – Get It In The Sun

https://amf.didiermary.fr/sai-galaxy-get-it/

Australian producer Sai Galaxy (Simon Durrington) brings a fusion of classic Afro Funk, Disco & Jazz House.

As the name suggests, Sai Galaxy represents a star-studded cluster of artists from around the world – their varied styles colliding to form a refreshing fusion of classic Afrobeat, Disco and West African funk. Drawing from the influence […]

#AfroFunk #Disco #Ghana #Nigeria

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