If there’s one thing Nigerian singer Oxlade believes in, it’s the power of Afrobeats as a world-conquering musical movement.
“Afrobeat is beyond the music. Afrobeats is who we are,” he says. “Afrobeats is the trends, the fashion, what we eat. Afrobeats is an identity.”
The Lagos native, born Ikuforiji Olaitan Abdulrahman, has good reason to believe in Afrobeats, considering he’s one of its fastest-rising stars. After a youth marked by tragedy and struggle, in particular the death of his mother at 3 years old,…
