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06 Sep 20226 takeaways from SAMAs 2022This year’s South African Music Awards (SAMAs) were one of the most inclusive, unexpected and...By Butchie Seroto
05 Sep 2022Op-ed: Why Lagos is now a global tastemaker city By Phiona Okumu It wasn’t that long ago that if you’d asked someone what they knew about Lagos,...By In-house West Africa
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06 Mar 2020Burna, Fela and the functionality of contemporary African...Randall F Grass, in his book Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: The Art of an Afrobeat Rebel , reminds us that “...By Sam Dennis