There's a song I've been trying to find for years now. It was popular around 1985 or so. Had kind of a calypso or dance band highli...

The band was officially called The Apostles (or The Apostles of Aba), but as some of their album covers announced them simply as "Apos...

I haven't had time to post much as I've been working on a few projects that I hope will come to light soon, but I figured I'd tr...

In 1982, mere months after the release of Felix Lebarty's blockbuster debut, Lover Boy, a second Lebarty album hit the market. But rat...

The mid-western region of Nigeria--an area once known as Bendel State, but now subdivided into Delta and Edo States--has produced a great ma...

Just so that there is no confusion, let us make this point perfectly clear right from the get-go: Jake Sollo was the hottest, the most proli...

48 years today... You've come a long way, baby! Theadora Ifudu - "Her Name Is Nigeria

It's raining like the dickens here and there's a flood watch on, so it's not without a tinge of irony that I post today's fu...

Ahh... How I love it when the pieces fall together! La'ila by Akwassa, DWAPS 54, 1975. This is a record I've had for some time, fe...

As I have stated a few times before, I have something of a love-hate relationship with Nigerian reggae. I mean, I've actually warmed up ...

Another artist I know absolutely nothing about. The album has a bunch of great musicians on it, though: the ebullient Mambo on drums, the ev...

Another mystery artist. I know nothing of this Sunny White or the Clinks. Nor am I familiar with any of the names in the list of musicians w...

I feel like I should know who he is... The name does activate distant bells in my head... But I don't know; a handle like "Tony B...

Yeah, I've been back in the States a few days now, but I'm probably gonna lie low for a bit while I try to get a new scanner and iro...

I fear I shall never get the grime out from under my fingernails but I'm still pretty pleased with the day's take. I haven't gon...

Man, my blogging days feel almost like a distant memory of a past life... Hard to believe it's been just over two months! Didn't mea...

I gotta start posting again, yo... Next week. Promise. (Just wanted to let y'all know that I'm not dead)

Of course, this song is in my head like 60% of the time, anyway. Feels like an eternity since I've blogged with any regularity... It...

Just heard the news. More to come as I learn it. R.I.P. Thanks to John B. for furnishing us with this mp3 of Oliver's biggest hit, ...

Sorry I was so slow on the uptake identifying this song when N.I.M.M.O. mentioned it in the comments... Of course I remember "Highlife...