Roger Milla remains best known as a veteran forward with an iconic celebration but he was a terrific talent that Claude Roy once compared to Pele. Over 33 years later, Roger Milla’s iconic celebration ...

Lagos — The Makossa fever that gripped Nigeria last year is far from over, pushing Nigeria's indigenous music to the background. Last year, Paris based techno-soukous star, Awilo Longomba, evidently ...

In many ways, makossa may have been the first dance trend of the 2000s because it spilt over from the 1990s. What changed in 2000? It was the period when digital media, the Nigerian media structure ...

Dance means many things to many persons and culture but remains universal. ANTHONY ADA ABRAHAM examines the different dance styles that hold sway in Nigeria and the role of dance in national ...

His 1972 hit “Soul Makossa” arrived at the dawn of the disco era and made its way to dance floors across the United States, Europe and Africa. By Jon Pareles This obituary is part of a series about ...

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