February 04, (THEWILL) – Everything happening to Nigerian music today has happened before. This aspirational flight of our music from local studios to international audiences, via global music corporations and their local operators, is in its second coming. ‘Afrobeats to the world ‘, as I love to call it, isn’t new. It’s history repeating itself — a collective deja vu for our creative class and the ecosystem that supports it.
We have seen this before. Our ancestors — your parents and their parents — have been here before….