This weekend, Black recording artists — from Lagos to Los Angeles — will gather in Detroit for an international music festival of epic proportions, one that the Midwest region has not seen before.
This event is called Afro Nation, the largest Afrobeats music festival in the world, founded by creative entrepreneurs Obi Asika and Smade in association with BBC 1 Xtra.
After playing in places like Portugal, Ghana and Puerto Rico, Afro Nation will come to Bedrock’s historic Douglass site in Detroit, the grounds of a former housing…
