
By: The Jídé Taiwo
For full disclosure, I am a reluctant user of the term “Afrobeats”. My reticence is not born out of any hateration, but as our music began to attract major international attention about ten years ago, I was convinced that the name would be used to box all of Nigeria’s music into a compact, yet loose potpourri of different things.
I feared that Afrobeats would come to suffer the same fate that has befallen the Hollywood stereotypical African accent; they just make the characters…