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People·21 min

Music II - Fẹlá, Afrobeat and the Afrobeats Generation

Fẹlá Aníkúlápó-Kuti in full, his sons Fẹmi and Ṣeun, Lágbájá and Aṣa, and the global Afrobeats generation from Wizkid and Davido to Tems and Ayra Starr, with ethnicity verified for each.

intermediatehighfelaafrobeat

Oriki·14 min

Oríkì in Contemporary Life

Oríkì composed and performed today, for a doctor, for a masked pop musician, and for the Christian God, showing the form still generating new texts rather than only preserving old ones.

intromediumorikicontemporary