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Afrobeats

June 2024

  • Burna Boy plays the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival. Glastonbury Festival. Pilton, Somerset. Photograph by David Levene 30/6/24

    Burna Boy at Glastonbury review – Afro-fusion maestro starts Pyramid stage party

    The Nigerian brings an electrifying energy and prompts a mass singalong accompaniment to his signature baritone
  • Ayra Starr

    ‘I’m literally a superstar!’: the irresistible confidence of Nigerian singer-songwriter Ayra Starr

    Moving around a lot as a child taught the 22-year-old to listen and absorb myriad musical influences. Now she’s combined them into a Grammy-nominated cocktail of R&B and Afrobeats and is ready to conquer Glasto
  • Portrait of Tems in a black dress and wearing large silver heart-shaped earring

    Tems: Born in the Wild review – the Afrobeats artist levels up in style

    The Lagos-born singer’s rocket-fuelled rise to stardom continues on a debut album peppered with swaggering bangers

May 2024

  • Ayra Starr, sitting beside a flower.

    Ayra Starr: The Year I Turned 21 review – magnetic Afrobeats

    The Beninese-Nigerian singer-songwriter puts her big voice to work on a set of songs that are over all too soon

April 2024

  • The Cavemen

    One to watch
    One to watch: the Cavemen

    Sung in English and Igbo, the Nigerian brothers’ joyful ‘highlife fusion’ is already huge with Afrobeats’ big names

February 2024

  • Various Nigerian albums

    Seventy years of Nigerian album covers – in pictures

    Digital designer Opemipo Aikomo has created a searchable database of classic covers, from Fela Kuti through to the new Afrobeats stars

December 2023

  • ‘I haven’t stop listening since’ … L to r, Jung Kook, Kelela, Yves Tumor.

    Best music of 2023
    ‘A tonic that no medication can give’: readers’ favourite albums of 2023

  • Kendrick Lamar onstage during Move Afrika: Rwanda 2023.

    Kendrick Lamar concert in Kigali kicks off drive to put Africa on the global gig circuit

November 2023

  • Sheffield city centre skyline

    Mobo awards for music of black origin to be held at Sheffield Arena

  • Film still: Anatomy of a Fall Original title: Anatomie d'une chute 2023 Directed by Justine Triet

    Notebook
    Much as it galls the French, English has become Europe’s cultural lingua franca

    Tomiwa Owolade
  • No Ps and Qs … Rema at the 02, London.

    Rema review – brilliant bat-riding Nigerian star is a little too ambitious

  • A new era in African music … Ayra Starr performing at Koko.

    Ayra Starr review – west African singer underlines her superstar potential

October 2023

  • ‘I didn’t even realise what I was expressing in that song’ … Olúwa Jọ by Tammy Sinclair.

    ‘It is just raw feeling!’: Afrobeats star Mr Eazi on how his debut album caused an art explosion

    After a painting stopped him in his tracks, the singer asked 13 artists to create a work for each track of The Evil Genius. It has been, he says, ‘the most therapeutic journey’ – and it’s on show in London
  • People hold candles during a minute’s silence during a protest at a park in Lagos amid rising anger over the MohBad’s death in unclear circumstances.

    Nurse main suspect in death of Afrobeats star MohBad, say Nigerian police

    Lagos police chief says unnamed nurse injected singer before his death last month
  • A woman holds a photograph of the late Nigerian singer MohBad, during a candlelight procession in Abuja on 22 September.

    Nigerian police detain Afrobeats star Naira Marley over death of MohBad

    Boss of rising singer’s former music label has denied any involvement in unexplained death

August 2023

  • Exceptionally rich in hooks and bulletproof songwriting … Burna Boy.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Burna Boy: I Told Them review – Afrobeats superstar punches closer to the mainstream

    Eschewing the political controversies of his interviews, the Nigerian musician’s seventh album is streamlined, swaggering and rich with perfectly deployed vocal samples
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