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 ...

But it had less significance for urbanized Igbos, who were already exposed to different genres of music like hip-hop, R&B, blues and pop. Similarly, highlife was not the common music played at ...

90-year-old musician Gentleman Mike Ejeagha is currently trending on social media platforms after his 1983 record 'Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche' was used by comedian and skit maker Brain Jotter in a viral ...

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 ...

Celebrated musician and cultural advocate Gerald Eze, widely known as Ogbuoja-Eze, has raised alarm over the rapid ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

Getting married in the Nigerian Igbo culture is an important deal, especially for women. It symbolizes coming of age, prosperity, community, trust, and many more emotions that can only be experienced ...