Veteran Nigerian music producer Olumide Ogunlade, popularly known as ID Cabasa, has dismissed Akon’s recent comments about pioneering Afrobeats, describing them as a “half-truth” comparable to colonial claims that explorer Mungo Park discovered the River Niger.
Speaking during an appearance on Rubbin’ Minds on Channels Television, Cabasa criticized Akon’s assertion that he helped create Afrobeats, stating that the genre was already thriving long before the Senegalese-American singer’s involvement.
“What Akon said, I think, was…
