• Dami Ajayi
• Emeka Ugwu
• Sa’eed Husaini

On the latest AIAC podcast, the gang from the Nigerian Scam explores how Afrobeats got globalized, who captured the value, and why the party may be ending.

• Dami Ajayi

Wizkid’s dispute with Seun Kuti and the release of his latest EP with Asake highlight the widening gap between Afrobeats’ commercial triumph and Fela Kuti’s political inheritance

• Garhe Osiebe

Burna Boy’s highly publicized Lagos prison visit looked like generosity, but it also looked like content. Who was it really for?

• Timothy Edaki

Musical traditions and language from Edo State have moved from the margins of Nigeria's national (and international) culture to the center.

• Dotun Ayobade

What can the lives of the women behind Afrobeat tell us about creativity, resistance, and the interplay of power and pleasure in 1970s Nigeria?

• Nelson Freitas

Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world.

• Ezequiel Tedesco

One bandleader's quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

In Colombia, doing straightforward political music carries many risks, including confronting state repression, political armed rebellions, and organized crime.

• Wayne Marshall

Does Afrobeats come from the continent or the diaspora. This reviewer of a new book on the genre's history and rapid takeover of our airwaves and playlists, argues we need to center Africa more.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

In the third installment on Afrobeat in South America, political scientist Simon A. Akindes writes about Newen Afrobeat from Chile’s capital.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

In the second of five articles on Afrobeat music in South America, political scientist Simon Akindes writes about the all women and nonbinary Brazilian band, Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

In the first of five articles on Afrobeat in South America, Simon Adetona Akindes discusses Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra and Bixiga 70 from Brazil.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Lagos. Listen here and on Worldwide FM.

• Désọ́lá

It is unfair to expect coherent politics from Naira Marley or his fans, the Marlians. We should, instead, chastise the Nigerian state for stifling its people and keeping its young perpetually waiting.

• Banwo “Proficience” Olagokun

A fan of rapper Naira Marley writes that it will take more than counter-cultural popularity to effect any tangible change in Nigeria.

• Emeka Joseph Nwankwo

Pressure on African writers to avoid the criticism of poverty porn limits the imagination of the writer and the ability to speak truth to power.

• Boima Tucker

How socialist Cuba's foreign policy of solidarity with Africans, midwifed a new genre of music on the island.

• Boluwatife Akinro
• Joshua Segun-Lean

Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa.

• Endre Dalen

The Somali artist and DJ, Hibotep, is one of the many pushing electronic hybrid sounds from East Africa through the epicenter of the movement, Kampala.

• Lamin Fofana

An interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic musician Lamin Fofana on Europe's longtime fascination with African culture.