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The African Folk Soul of Bongos Ikwue
The 1970’s were an extremely fertile era for music. In America, progressive soul and funk broke new ground while London spawned the punk rock scene and Kingston, Jamaica gave the world roots reggae. In Nigeria, an extraordinarily diverse and dynamic cultural scene yielded not only Fela’s Afrobeat and juju’s peak with Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey ...
News: Obituary
Sonny Okosun Pioneer of Nigerian Pop Music Dies
Sonny Okosun, key figure in Nigerian pop music who mixed traditional African forms with Western rock elements Okosum died May 24 of colon cancer at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., according to news reports, he was 61. Born in Benin, Nigeria, in 1947 to musician parents, Okosun taught himself to play the guitar. He began ...
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