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Five rounds into Super Rugby Pacific and it looks like we’ve got ourselves the most unpredictable competition in a long, long time.  Up is down for the winless Crusaders, Moana Pasifika have jagged a couple of wins, and the Aussie sides – touch wood – have parked their bunny status …

The narrative was led by the British-Nigerian/Ghanaian contingent of DJ Abass, Ayo Shonaiya, DJ Abrantee, DJ Edu and more. It was a time when Africans in the UK started to grow increased affinity with their African roots. In the previous years, embracing your African roots wasn’t as cool, lest people …

Ayo Shonaiya has been active in the Nigerian music industry for decades and he has played a pivotal role in engineering the domestic rise of Afrobeats as well as its export to the United Kingdom and the United States. With over 300 hours of never before seen tapes that captures …

According to Shonaiya, the documentary aims to put roots in the history of Nigerian music, with timelines, first-hand accounts and insights into the evolution of Nigerian music, especially Afrobeats, as the story of the genre has been disputed. He opined that this generation of music enthusiasts are victims of the …