A look at the relationship of Nigerian superstars with The O2 Arena captures the international evolution of Afrobeats. In the story of the international rise of Afrobeats, the United Kingdom played ...

Rema identified D’banj as one of the first people to take the Afrobeat sound to the United Kingdom, saying he paved the way for his generation of artistes. Rema identified D’banj as one of the first ...

Afrobeats star Asake paid tribute to the people who died as a result of the Brixton Academy crowd crush, during his debut O2 Arena show on Sunday (20 August). The Nigerian artist performed three dates ...

On July 29, Nigerian Afrobeats superstar Wizkid performed in front of a sold-out Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, becoming the first African artist to earn that title. With 45,000 fans in ...

A crowd crush at the doors of London’s O2 Academy Brixton on December 15 led eight people to be hospitalized, four of whom were left in critical condition, The Guardian and The New York Times report.

Oliver Akinfeleye remembers Burna Boy’s first show in New York. The location was Palladium Times Square, the year was 2017. Akinfeleye, an American Nigerian photographer known professionally as ...

Afrobeats’ global rise has been impossible to ignore. From sold-out arenas to chart-topping collaborations, the genre’s influence now extends far beyond the continent—yet its heartbeat has always ...