Hello all. Am not from Nigeria but I love Nigerian music and tradition. Especially the afrobeat movement started by Fela Kuti. However, nowadays I see alot of musicians from all over Africa saying they do afrobeat yet their music is very far from what Fela coined Afrobeat. Its just some computerized pop beats and they call it afrobeat. Take a look at this interesting blog article from Uganda about Musicians there who call themselves Afrobeat musicians.

http://www.kerere.com/blog.php?id=5

I want to know your thoughts. Is Afrobeat the music of Fela, Femi, Sunny e.t.c or is it any music done in Africa?

Its not any music done in africa,
some artists like mosdef has sampled afrobeat songs, that doesnt make their songs afrobeat.

the fela/femi type songs are afrobeat.

am not sure if lagbaja type music belongs to that category though.

sorry just listened to the bobi song,
thats so "dance hall" music to me.

@ambros: Yea thanks for the reply. That blog article is actually a write up about Ugandan musicians who keep calling themselves afrobeat musicians. I also agree with your overall view. Afrobeat is a specific style of music.

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