“Afrobeats” And The Future Of Nigerian Music | The Culture Custodian (Est. 2014.) – The Culture Custodian

Nigerian music has set the world alight in the last half-decade, with the biggest of its wins coming under the moniker Afrobeats, its foreign-given nickname. As it approaches the golden age of its existence so far, some of Nigerian music’s biggest artists have started to express reservations about continuing under this name. Burna Boy sparked controversy in August when he claimed in an interview with Apple Music that Afrobeats was a genre with “no substance,” and in its stead, he proposed Afrofusion, his self-styled creation…