The geography alone suggests distance: Lagos is far from Lilongwe, both in distance and in pop culture references. Afrobeats, after all, is a genre closely associated with West Africa’s major cities like Lagos and Accra, where nightlife, radio, and more recently, digital culture have helped shape its global reach.
And yet Afrobeats has found a home in Malawi, a country quietly situated between eastern and southern Africa and missing from the African pop culture map. Here, the genre takes shape not as imitation but as…
