The Afro Beat

Twenty years ago, Dele Olojede was in Nigeria, a reporter for the independent national Concord newspaper, whose editor spent two weeks in de...

Monday, Dec. 05, 1960 - Time Magazine Cover Story At five minutes before nine the warning bell clanged, and the chattering parliamentarians...

The music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti is rarely heard on the radio in Nigeria. Everyone is in a possession of a CD or two of his, but to listen t...

Ok, so with April only a few weeks away, this (extracted) article is ever-so-relevant and raises a couple of issues: Why is Yar'Adua (an...

The writer charts the rise of the "Afropolitan" - internationally mobile, young people of African descent, making their mark on th...

From what I've gathered, this video clip is of a group of Biafran Nationalists (MASSOB it seems) staging a very noisy protest, at an eve...

I shamelessly stole this topic from Jeremy's Blog , but we can pretend he emailed the article to me as his first contribution to The Afr...

This article talks about the EFCC and its fight against corruption. I'm sure most of you heard about the Graft List that was released a ...

Nothing spectacular, as far as I know, happened in 1951. Margaret Jeffries, a British woman, lived in Nigeria for a year, wrote in her diary...

Several members of The Afro Beat watched this documentary. We flinched at the derogatory comments, and were unsure how to respond or react,...

Kome is a student at Stanford University, and she is a member of The Afro Beat. She sent us this link to a This Day newspaper article on Fr...

"A whole neeew wooooorld" Ekaaro, Bonjour, Kedu, Etcetera Etceteroo... Hope everyone had a good weekend? To all "silent revol...

Here is a profile on Asari-Dokubo (the subject of Olusegun Adeniyi's article) published by the BBC in 2004. Does the rationale of Adeni...

Thanks to everyone who commented on yesterday's post. As Nam and Jeremy identified, The Afro Beat needs to decide on the direction in w...