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The legacy of Nigerian music star Orlando Julius must not be overlooked

If there is one musician as commonly associated as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with the West African musical movements Afrobeat and Afrobeats...

The 50 best albums of 2022

As 2022 comes to an end, PAM offers you a selection of albums that have marked the past twelve months. This year, we...

100 years of pop music in Nigeria: what shaped four eras

The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the early months of 2020 shut down nearly all physical and social...

Setting the record straight: Burna Boy didn’t create a music genre called Afrofusion

Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu was born in 1991 in Port Harcourt, the largest city in Rivers State in Nigeria. He...

The best Nigerian titles of 2022

With the inauguration of the Afrobeats category on the US Billboard charts earlier this year, the Nigerian scene continued its exceptional rise. The...

How Burna Boy set the world alight with his mixed brew of influences

Nigerian Afrobeats star Burna Boy burst onto the global stage in 2018 with a slew of irresistible hits on his...

The best reissues of 2022

Inexhaustible, unique and exciting treasures reappear from the past to find, or regain their place in our collective memory. Finds of lost sounds,...

Simi and Bella Shmurda: two Afrobeats stars reveal a growing tendency to abuse Fela Kuti

There can no longer be any doubt that Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the legendary Nigerian musician, activist and father of Afrobeat music,...

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