After Obey and KSA, will Fuji bury Jùjú? (3), By Tunde Odesola

If wishes were horses, 1975 would have been the end of King Sunny Ade’s music career. It was the year a Lagos High Court slammed KSA with a nine-month ban, forbidding him from recording music. The ban followed a dispute between KSA and the owner of two leading record labels, Take Your Choice and African […]

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After Obey and KSA, will Fuji bury Jùjú? (2), By Tunde Odesola

A musical genre rarely dies on the day its last great musician dies. It dies more quietly, when generations stop hearing themselves in the music. This, most probably, may be the real trouble with Jùjú. Bathwater cascades from the head to the feet, says an ancient proverb from southwestern Nigeria. For decades, Jùjú was not […]

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After Obey and KSA, will Fuji bury Jùjú? (1), By Tunde Odesola

Across the world’s seven continents and among its eight billion inhabitants, every creation story bears the same themes of void, force, and formation. The ancestries differ, the myths diverge, but the trilogy is forged on the same anvil of chaos-creation-calm. At the dusk of creation, even before the creative heat simmered, cackling, chirping, meowing, and […]

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If men don’t want to love you, use ‘juju’, they will love you by force —Lady advises other women (Video)

A lady has taken to the Instagram page of ghbase (officialghbase) to advise the other women to use ‘juju’ (love portion) on the men so that the ones who don’t want to love them will love them by force. Watch the video below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ghbase News (@officialghbase)

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