A.A.A. is perhaps as non-descript as it gets – a new EP project with abstract art adorning its cover and with that acronym. Immediate assessment: underground, left-side of advertisement. Brace yourself. Come to this music without lofty expectations of the…
Bez is back and he has seen ‘The Light’ – Dami Ajayi-
Bez Idakula. 35. Gbagyi Child. Married. Has seen the light. Let me explain: Some 10 years ago, he started walking into an arts expression show, Taruwa, and performing his songs accompanied by the strumming of the guitar. He did that…
Burna Boy and the Fela influence – Dami Ajayi
Twenty-two years after Fela‘s death, his accomplished older son, Femi Kuti, is 58 years old, the exact age Fela was when he succumbed to HIV/AIDS. Seun Kuti, his younger son, in whose hands the mantle of leading the Egypt 80…
Dami Ajayi, Nigerian poet and doctor in spat with BA over missing laptop
Award winning Nigerian poet and psychiatric doctor, Dr. Dami Ajayi is engaged in a twitter spat with British Airways following the loss/theft of his laptop while aboard a BA flight enroute Lagos from London. Dr. Ajayi was on his way…
Simi courts the familiar in Omo Charlie Champagne – Dami Ajayi
Barely two years after releasing her self-titled sophomore LP album, Simisola Ogunleye is back with her third strike called Omo Charlie Champagne Volume 1. Released on the 19th of April to mark her 31st birthday, OCC is comprised of 13…
Kizz Daniel hits gold with Fvck You – Dami Ajayi
Kizz Daniel, unperturbed by his sophomoric lull, has dismissed it for greater things. His latest single, Fvck You, produced by Young John is currently the hottest thing in the industry—and will probably give him more bragging rights than his entire…
Let me tell you why Carl Thomas blocked me on Twitter – Dami Ajayi
The other day, Abuja-based poet Bash Amuneni shared a meme on social media with American singer Carl Thomas singing in the rain. The essence of the meme’s text was that R & B lost its essence when crooners stopped groanin’…
I have a question for Oyinkan Braithwaite – Dami Ajayi
The longlist for 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction was released earlier this week, and, as you know, Naija no dey carry last. Three Nigerian women writers were selected. Sorry, make that two female Nigerian writers and a non-binary transgender person,…
Let’s talk about Fokn Bois and their “Afrobeats lol” album -Dami Ajayi
Gospel Porn Christian Rap Duo, Fokn Bois have retired their seemingly ecumenical calling for the earthier, contemporary and gentile-loving genre of music, Afrobeats. That curious name, Afrobeats, has failed to die several deaths, perhaps for obvious reasons. Coined by Abrantee,…
Val Day Special: The Love Songs of K. Sunny Ade
Let us go then, you and I—you, dear reader and I, into the vast discography of Juju music’s most accomplished practitioner, King Sunny Ade, for the auspicious event of fishing out his love songs. Juju music, that variant of palmwine…