Nigerian MCs and dancehall specialists skating across Baile funk beats? Asake, Fuji extraordinaire and Street Pop rebel, sampling Louisiana bounce? Young Jonn, resident Afropop loverboy, crooning over the ceaseless pulse of 3-step? Anyone who has paid any sort of mind to Nigerian music over the past five years might find the dominance of electronic sounds in the country’s music landscape somewhat unsurprising. Marked by the entrance of South Africa’s amapiano into the nation’s mainstream around…
