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2 weeks ago | 
okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu |Tseliso Monaheng
Every week, OkayAfrica highlights the top Afrobeats and African music releases through our best music column, Songs You Need to Hear This Week. Read ahead for our round-up of the best new African music tracks and music videos that came across our desks this week. Afrobeats veteran Olamide assembles an all-star cast on “99,” a banger released ahead of his forthcoming self-titled album.
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3 weeks ago | 
okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu |Tseliso Monaheng
Every week, OkayAfrica highlights the top Afrobeats and African music releases through our best music column, Songs You Need to Hear This Week. Read ahead for our round-up of the best new African music tracks and music videos that came across our desks this week. With his first release of the year, veteran tastemakerSPINALL goes the sensual, mid-tempo route.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu
The last time we heard from Seun Kuti, he announced the imminent release of the deluxe version of Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head), Kuti and Egypt 80’s latest album. In the latest news surrounding the critically acclaimed album, the Afrobeat great has shared another remix and collaboration.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu
NSGstands at the crossroads of several cultures. 'Nigeria Slash Ghana' is one of the several meanings of their group name—an homage to their home countries, which is also significant as both nations are instrumental in the origin and evolution ofAfrobeats. When the East London-formed band talks to OkayAfrica about their latest album,The Big 6, there's palpable excitement on the Zoom call. Their profound and seamless chemistry is evident in real-time.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu
M.anifest is constantly evolving. Accruing “African rap great” status off the back of his conceptually rich tapes and albums, the 42-year-old Ghanaian rapper is a maverick. On the day we speak over a Zoom call, he's wearing a fly purple shirt and large, quaint rings — several of them — on his left hand. Sipping from a water can, he speaks with the masterful ease of an artist assured in his process.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu
Wizkid performs on stage during The Fashion Awards 2024 presented by Pandora at Royal Albert Hall on December 02, 2024 in London, England. Months after releasing Morayo, Nigerian superstar Wizkidis finally giving the album its much-deserved push. Last time out, we saw the Afrobeats star enter deeper into his creative bag, directing the visuals for his hit record “Kese (Dance),” a move that put him in a similar perspective with other artists who are increasingly trying out the same.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu
Let’s be frank, there has never been a period in African music when women weren’t creating groundbreaking work. It’s quite unfortunate and detrimental that contributions of our women greats over the eras have tended to be glossed over, but thankfully this fault of perspective is being corrected in recent times. A mention of the biggest artists today cannot be complete without the likes of Tems, Ayra Starr, Amaaraeand Tyla.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu
Seun Kuti has always been a purposeful collaborator. Across his catalog, theAfrobeat great has shown an intent to broaden the perimeters of his sound, inviting esteemed musicians to serve that aim. With his latest album, Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head), Kuti continues to stretch Afrobeat's sonic possibilities. After announcing his U.S. tour earlier this year, the artist followed up with aZamrock remix of "Emi Aluta," his collaboration with the Zambian rapper Sampa The Great.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
okayafrica.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu
Ajebo Hustlers are deeply connected to Nigeria’s unique conditions. The group’s unusual name was coined to reflect the polarizing sides of socioeconomic standing (“ajebo” is Nigerian slang for someone born into wealth), especially as conscious artists emerging from the Port Harcourt scene.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
republic.com.ng | Diana Ejaita |Wale Lawal |Kai Mora |Emmanuel Esomnofu
Demas Nwoko did not coin the term, ‘Natural Synthesis’. That was the illustrator, Uche Okeke. However, Nwoko, along with Okeke and several other artists affiliated with the Art Department of the Nigerian College of Art, Science and Technology, in Zaria—a movement eventually known as the ‘Zaria Art Society’ or the ‘Zaria Rebels’—pioneered the post-colonial art paradigm around the 1960s.
