Amaarae’s third studio album, “Black Star,” dropped on August 8, 2025, into an already crowded year for African pop. Within days, it became one of the most talked-about drops on social media and in the music press, not because it was charting, but because it spread across cities, genres, and identities. Recorded between Miami, Brazil, […]
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At the start of 2018, it was glistening gold on the Milan Fashion Week catwalk as Wizkid took his place at Dolce & Gabbana, sharing the runways with supermodel Naomi Campbell and even designer Stefano Gabbana himself. It was a dream come true-not only because a Nigerian pop artist had made it onto one of
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It starts with a pair of Nike trainers on the feet of a teenager in Lagos and an Adidas tracksuit on a billboard in Nairobi. At a fashion pop-up in Accra, the Louis Vuitton monogram is discernible under a wax print jacket. African urban fashion is no longer just local; it’s global, and the global
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When Made Kuti released his sophomore album Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From, it wasn’t merely a sophomore release. It was a declaration of independence within a dynasty that has defined Afrobeat for decades. Born into the legacy of his grandfather Fela and father Femi, Made has had his expectations since birth. But with
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