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How Yoruba traditional music fed sakara, apala, waka, juju, fuji, highlife, Afrobeat and contemporary Afrobeats, traced through named musicians and specific musical mechanisms rather than gestures at influence.

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.

How the oral genres feed juju, fuji, ewi and Afrobeats, how film and theatre use them, what is actually being lost, and what archives and projects exist to hear the material.