I think I've isolated what I find so perversely appealing about Stella Monye's singing: it's the overwrought articulation! Anywa...

Earlier today in the comments for the last post, Birdseed enquired about Nigerian synth and electro music and I pledged to get some up soon....

Not a lot of time today, loved ones--just gonna quickly drop this nice little rollerskating groove by Princess Bumy Olajubu, another young f...

A couple of years ago, back when we were in the earlier stages of this filmmaking quest, Koko and I had a discussion about financing in whic...

Wow... Is it time for the This Day Awards time again already ? Looks like this year Erykah is headlining... Sure wish I be there to catch th...

Yes, this long-awaited CD compilation finally dropped last week and I meant to blog about it then too... But you might have noticed that I h...

I actually was feeling Mandy Brown Ojugbana back in 1986. For one thing, her debut album was on Faze 2 Records, which was the hip, cutting...

Stella Monye - "Satisfaction Guaranteed" Stella Monye's a singer who hit the scene in the mid-1980s, just as my once-voracious...

Wrinkar Experience - "Soundway" This is the B-side to "Fuel for Love," as heard on the already-posted first Flashback ...

"Let's Go Where the Action Is" and on the B-side... "The Book" I always found it kind of interesting the way Larry m...

This 1972 fuzz-rocker sounds a lot like Ofo's popular "Allah Wakbarr" and is in fact the B-side of that 1972 single. R.I.P. La...

Apart from Cody ChesnuTT, she remains my favorite contemporary artist working in the R&B/soul idiom, or whatever you want to call it. Su...

Just wanted to quickly share this cool video I stumbled upon: An October 2006 rehearsal of a theatre troupe in Lome, Togo, featuring the gra...

His flow is getting better, you fink? ...Well, when he's sober, anyway. The culinary obsession in his lyrics is interesting.

Because you demanded it (well... b2v did, anyway!)... GNONNAS PEDRO & HIS DADJES BAND - GNONNAS PEDRO & HIS DADJES BAND VOL. 1 (WOR...

For some reason, when I was younger, every time I saw a "Gnonnas Pedro & his Dadjes" on a record sleeve, I read it as "Gn...

I think the selection of this particular album was influenced by the fact that I hardly have time to post at all these days, so I deliberate...

In continuance of the little Victor Uwaifo thing we've been on, I decided to post this offering from the crates, No Palava (or No Palav...

(This is cheating, you know... It's really part 1!) In addition to being one of the flashiest and hardest working Nigerian musicians of ...

Okay... 2007's got like 30 minutes left; let's see if I can squeeze in one last entry before 2008 and close out the Ofege series wit...