Nigeria: Modern Juju Music... an Indigenous Genre Awaiting the Next Superstar

From I.K. Dairo's refreshing contribution, to King Sunny Ade and Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, the legendary maestro of Juju music, Dami Ajayi traces the evolution of a genre which spanned the oil boom of the 1970s as well as the 1990s, a draconian period of economic austerity occasioned by military rule in Nigeria and absence of superstars emerging to carry on the torch of Juju

The night had begun harmlessly like many busy nights are wont to. I was already in bed at 10 pm, two hours after dinner, engaging in banter I knew will end mid-way, with me drifting off. Just as sleep was kicking in, a phone call disrupted things and less than one hour later, I was driving down to a nightclub on the Island in the company of a few friends.

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