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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nigerian mainstream music is constantly evolving and showcasing the rich indigenous music from different parts of the country Emerging from the bustling commercial city of Onitsha, the vibrant music ...

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 ...

Enugu Governor Peter Mbah has expressed deep grief over the death of music icon ‘Gentleman’ Mike Ejeagha, saying the legend had created a void that would be too difficult to fill. Mbah described ...