Encyclopedia > Music of Nigeria

Article Content

Music of Nigeria

Nigerian music is extremely varied, and includes dozens of styles of folk music as well as pop forms like Afrobeat and highlife.

Apala[?] - a Yoruban style of talking drum[?] percussion
Fuji[?] - Yoruban vocal and percussive style popularized by performers like Kollington[?] and Adewale Ayuba[?]
Juju[?] - traditional Yoruban rhythms using western instruments, juju is extremely popular and includes stars like I.K. Dairo[?] and King Sunny Ade[?]

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

French resistance

... He was accused of collaboration after the war but was acquitted. Operation Overlord was approaching. In the fall of 1943 COSSAC begun to direct SOE and OSS activities ...