Music
Oriental Brothers International: the Igbo highlife band that ruled the 1970s
Formed in the early 1970s after the Nigerian civil war, Oriental Brothers International became one of the biggest…
Igbo highlife
Music
Celestine Ukwu: the philosopher of Igbo highlife
Celestine Ukwu was one of the most admired Igbo highlife musicians of the late 1960s and 1970s. With…
Arts + Culture
He took his stage name from a board game he rarely lost: Oliver De Coque, the king of Igbo highlife
Oliver De Coque, born Oliver Sunday Akanite in Ezinifite, Anambra State, in 1947, became one of the most…
Music
A 1980s Igbo folk song went viral in 2024. Mike Ejeagha, in his nineties, became a TikTok sensation
In 2024, a dance challenge set to "Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo", a song by the veteran Igbo musician…
Arts + Culture
The Doctor of Hypertension: Osita Osadebe and “Osondi Owendi”, the record Nigerians still call their biggest seller
Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe released "Osondi Owendi" in 1984. It became one of the biggest-selling records in Nigerian…