03 Aug 2018Is Falz's activism superficial? Falz must be confused. What to do, he must wonder, to catch a break?By Kayode Faniyi Share to newsfeed
06 Jun 2018On Fela and his Kalakuta QueensLate last year, Fela and the Kalakuta Queens debuted at Terrakulture in Lagos just after I’d...By Kayode Faniyi Share to newsfeed
23 May 2018The strange confessions of Fela's last managerIt could have been very different. Rather than that substantial, smoking toke poking through his...By Kayode Faniyi 1 commentShare to newsfeed
03 Jan 2018FIA is the song of Davido’s careerIf there’s one thing we all should stake our earthly belongings on, it’s that your average Nigerian...By Kayode Faniyi Share to newsfeed
03 Nov 2017The importance of Reminisce’s PonmileSome bloke called Jay Z released an album in June, named it 4:44—because that’s when the crickets...By Kayode Faniyi Share to newsfeed
20 Sep 2017Fela was not a prophetFela once sang of a friend, a low-level civil servant, who, because he was tired of sweating at...By Kayode Faniyi Share to newsfeed
15 Sep 2017The wokeness of Olamide’s WoRemember 'Story for the Gods'? That song is three years old this year. When (some) Nigerians...By Kayode Faniyi Share to newsfeed
03 Aug 2017Wizkid: Sounds from what other side?Ask God and he’ll tell you how one needs an overdose of self-belief to become a successful creator...By Kayode Faniyi Share to newsfeed
21 Jun 2017How Small Doctor made Nigerian pop from Fuji musicIt is difficult to tell exactly what is going on behind Adedoyin Kukoyi’s enthusiastic façade —...By Kayode Faniyi 1 commentShare to newsfeed
17 May 2017Does Nigerian pop reflect the spirit of the times?The Germans own the word Zeitgeist. In English, we approximate it to mean 'spirit of the times',...By Kayode Faniyi Share to newsfeed
19 Apr 2017What might Fela think of Tekno’s Rara?After ThreeWiseMen and Wizkid in recent times, Tekno is the latest Nigerian musician to have his...By Kayode Faniyi Share to newsfeed