Burna Boy’s discography and lived attitude to Nigerian audiences presents a local-global dialectic. His irreverence towards local fans and the narcissism that pervades his latest musical offering, I Told Them, are suggestive of a growing individualistic ethos within the Afrobeats collective.
Editor’s note: This essay is available in our print issue, The Age of Afrobeats. Buy the issue here.
Some of the earliest injections of African musical currents into the international melting pot of sounds, particularly those of the 16th century,…
