On March 17th, 2024, The African Music Library and lawyer and historian Nze Ed Emeka Keazor hosted the official Lagos premiere of Nze Keazor’s film Ki'mon In an era where the contributions of our past ...

William Onyeabor, the elusive and influential Nigerian musician who pioneered a stuttering style of electronic funk during the ‘70s and ‘80s before retreating from music to focus on his faith and ...

Onyeabor began his career in 1977, where he composed, and self-released nine albums of electronic funk over his lifetime, albums which he recorded, pressed and printed at his pressing plant in ...

Yale Evelev, head of world music label Luaka Bop, digs up information about great-but-forgotten musicians for a living. His quest to compile and release the work of Nigerian funk legend William ...

Joni Haastrup started out singing spot-on covers of James Brown and Wilson Pickett in Lagos bars in the mid-1960s. But with his own band, MonoMono, he became part of a movement to fuse soul, funk and ...

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Throughout this week, we at NPR Music are taking a look at the year in music with our friend Audie Cornish, host of All Things Considered. I joined her to bring a closer ear to two very impressive ...

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Uchenna Ikonne, a Nigerian music scholar, about Onyeabor's career and how he turned his back on music to become a... Nigerian Funk Musician William Onyeabor Dies At 70 ...

William Onyeabor, the elusive and influential Nigerian musician who pioneered a stuttering style of electronic funk during the '70s and '80s before retreating from music to focus on his faith and ...