They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

Emerging from the bustling commercial city of Onitsha, the vibrant music scene embraces rich indigenous Igbo music in offering a different variant of Afrobeats. One of the artists leading this charge ...

The Imo State government will host this year’s edition of the Igbo Music Award, an event seeking to preserve and promote the Igbo culture through its music. It is through Igbo music as produced by the ...

Highlife music is a genre that has been harmonising culture and beats in Nigeria and across Africa for decades. In this interview, Nigerian highlife singer CHIBUIKE JOHNPAUL ANEKWE, best known by his ...

To talk about the Igbo Highlife Music, we have to draw years back after the civil war from 1967-1970, the period which greatly influenced the music genre. It was a period when everybody believed the ...

As Nigeria attains 60 years of age in its chequered history, and the Igbo Question which translates to the Nigerian Question is broached on the global stage, the precious gift Igbos bequeathed Nigeria ...

Read the first part of this series on the pioneers of Igbo highlife music here. Igbo highlife provided comfort and hope for the Igbos, an ethnic group living mainly in southeastern Nigeria, after a ...

Fifteen years ago, something truly special dropped onto the music scene: Flavour N’abania’s second album, Uplifted. This was a first showcase of his talent. With powerful vocals, masterful highlife ...

Nigerian highlife music has played an important role in the country's cultural scene since it became one of the most popular music genres in the 1960s. One characteristic of the music of this era was ...

Rap artiste, Azubuike Chibuzo Nelson, aka Phyno has said he will take Igbo rap to the next level. In a recent chat with Tribune, he talked about his adaptation of indigenous language and its ...

Egwu bụ ihe e ji mara ndi Igbo. Igbo bụkwa ndị egwu na-amasị nke mere na ị ga-ahụta ya n'ihe dị iche iche Igbo na-eme. Ma ọ bụ ihe aṅurị, maọbụ ihe nwute, Igbo nwere egwu ha nwere maka emume ndị a.