Read the first part of this series on the pioneers of Igbo highlife music here. Igbo highlife provided comfort and hope for the Igbos, an ethnic group living mainly in southeastern Nigeria, after a ...

They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

To talk about the Igbo Highlife Music, we have to draw years back after the civil war from 1967-1970, the period which greatly influenced the music genre. It was a period when everybody believed the ...

The World of Music, new series, Vol. 4, No. 2, Performing the New Diasporas: Contemporary African Ritual Music in North America (2015), pp. 99-118 (20 pages) Drawing from four years of active ...

In a viral video shared on the Internet, a Nigerian priest is seen leading a church of white people in worship with Igbo worship song ‘Imela’ The video which was shared by a Facebook user identified ...

Two different bands, each made up by two brothers, are keeping highlife music alive in Nigeria. Although Umu Obiligbo and the Cavemen have separate styles, these two bands are already building on the ...

For nearly 2 decades, Flavour has dazzled listeners with his music that packs his rich Igbo roots and awe-inspiring showmanship. Flavour releases track list for his album 'African Royalty' The very ...