afrobeats

In one week a video of a dancer called Prinny doing a routine to Drogba had been ripped and re-posted thousands of times, and racked up over 15 million views on one Facebook video alone.

He made it on Pete Townshend’s boat and it’s brilliant.

Discover the singers, producers, and activists pushing the sound forward and into the pop charts.

This year London sounded like Afrobeats. This is your fast track ride through the highlights.

The man who helped break British afrobeats takes us through his debut album.

London has started bumping to a whole new sound. Afrobeats stars mix melodies driven by West African heritage with rap vocals and R&B beats. These are the dance jams of now.

As Davido and Wizkid go global, we look into the mainstream’s growing embrace of Nigerian sounds.