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Listen Africa! meets Masimba, the 20-year-old Zimbabwean rapper08 Aug 2020Stage name MaSimba Age 20 Who is Pineapple Sati? I am Background I’ve been making music seriously since 2018 but it’s been a craft of mine for five years or so. I was inspired by my older brother (@yp... -
Listen Africa! meets Klu, a 31-year-old ace Ghanaian rapper who has released 29 bodies of work in 11 years11 Oct 2020 • 2 0Stage Name Klu Age 31 Background Fresh out of Secondary School, I started selling plain T-shirts and sneaker kicks that made me meet people who liked being fresh some of my customers were artists. Bei...
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Dear African artist, you don't have to release music on Friday12 Jul 2020 • 2 1A few months before the end of the year in 2019, Nigerian Journalist and Strategy Lead at MAVIN Records, Segun Akande complained about how music Friday releases give him anxiety. In his words, “I don’...
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Who is more important - the audience or the artist?25 Jul 2020 • 3 0On the well-received Forevatired debut album, Those Kids Next Door is a track titled, ‘MAGIC.’ On the 28-second track, a voice presumably belonging to one of the 11-man collective dismissively says, “...
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Why do African artists keep leaving producer credits off their digital album announcements?22 Aug 2020 • 3 0Another Friday. Another new set of album releases in Nigeria and across Africa. But in Nigeria, only Fireboy released his tracklist with producer and sound engineer credits. It’s an endemic that has b...
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'Afrobeats' is ‘kinda’ dying slowly and that's a good thing18 Jul 2020 • 3 0There’s always been a ‘world’ for African music. Throughout the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, Nigerian and African acts were the toast of UK record labels - some even got American record deals as early as th...
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Here is why Michael Jordan's appearance in Burna Boy’s video for ‘23’ should be a priority05 Sep 2020 • 2 0On August 14, 2020, Nigerian superstar, Burna Boy released his latest album, ‘Twice As Tall.’ The 15-track body of work marked a third straight body of work that oozes distinctive quality from Burna B...
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Listen Africa! meets Pineapple Sati, the 20-year-old Zimbabwean artist.04 Jul 2020 • 1 0Stage name Pineapple Sati Age 20 Who is Pineapple Sati? My name is Thabiso P. Khumalo Background I am a Zimbabwean artist with South African descendant on my fathers side. I don't come from a very mus...
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Is Beyonce really gentrifying Africa?03 Aug 2020 • 3 0On July 31, 2020, American singer, Beyonc Knowles released her film, ‘Black Is King’ on Disney+. Before then, she had teased a video for ‘Already,’ her smashing cut with Shatta Wale. BEYONCÉ LEGION @B...
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The global obsession with short-form video-sharing platforms and their impact on African entertainment26 Sep 2020 • 1 0It’s the middle of April 2020 and lockdown measures have been instituted in Nigeria. Oyin, a 23-year-old social media manager at an integrated marketing company sits at home contemplating what she was...