It appears a lot of people enjoyed the clip from "The Stephen Osita Osadebe Show" I posted last week and want to see more.* So her...

It's extremely rare to encounter live performance footage of Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe because like many musicians of his generation h...

The photo above was grabbed from this video of Fela Ransome-Kuti performing at the famous Luna Nite Club in Calabar in 1971. I don't th...

VARIOUS - SATURDAY HIGHLIFE (PHILIPS WEST AFRICAN RECORDS, 420 021 PE, 196?) SIDE 1 1. Come Again - Stephen Osadebe and his "Nigeria S...

Been super, super busy, fam... But keep checking in; things will be back to normal in a little bit, I think. For now, here's a little so...

A few months ago over on Likembe , John B. posted a few selections from Rusted Highlife Vol. 1, a compilation of forgotten highlife classic...

I don't know if it's a matter of Victor Uwaifo leading and everybody else following, or if it was just something in the air around B...

Well, not "rock" in the balls-out, yeh! yeh! yeh! sense--you'll find no searing solos here, no raucous drumming, no ecstatic ...

As I've said before, I love it when readers chip in around here. Our friend Melvyn was kind enough to share with us the very much in-dem...

(Title being an eminently lame pun referring to this immortal jingle. ) UMUKEGWU BOYS OPINION with headquarters headquarters [sic] in AKOKWA...

George Iboroma--was one of the most popular proponents of 1970s dance band highlife--well, in Eastern Nigeria, anyway. I still remember this...

Emperor Era Jenewari & His Globe Kings Dance Band - "Globe King's Special" Emperor Era Jenewari & His Globe Kings Danc...

Let's see... The last two posts dealt with Izon musician Echo Toikumo and guitarist Benjamin Otaru, who eared his chops under Ijaw bandl...

This is another band with a name that is very sweet in the mouth, especially when you pronounce it with a proper accent: AWW-taard-OOSS. Th...

A few months ago, John B. posted a nice series on Likembe spotlighting some of the music from the Ijaw/Okrika/Izon peoples of Nigeria's...

Singer/guitarist Danie Ian (pronounced "eye-AN" ) is perhaps one of the most tragically undersung heroes in the annals of Nigerian...

Who were Sons of Izzu? Wish I could say I knew. Hell, I wish I could say I knew what year their album Ago Follow You Go was released. But s...

(Consider this an unofficial companion piece to John B.'s great post on the golden age of Ghanaian highlife over at Likembe. ) When Ghan...

The Calabar of my childhood was not today's affectedly quaint, glossily-packaged tourist trap but a city lost in time. Back then, the to...

That's a shout-out to my Calabar peoples. I was quite delighted when I found this LP--Well, actually I didn't exactly recognize it, ...