Arts + Culture
Dead at 32 on the road to a show: Cardinal Rex Lawson, “Sawale” and the highlife of the 1960s
Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, born in Buguma in present-day Rivers State on 4 March 1938, was one of…
Nigerian highlife
Arts + Culture
They called him the evil genius of highlife: Victor Olaiya, the trumpeter who gave Fela a job
Victor Abimbola Olaiya, the Nigerian trumpeter known as the evil genius of highlife, was born on 31 December…
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…
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…