They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

Emerging from the bustling commercial city of Onitsha, the vibrant music scene embraces rich indigenous Igbo music in offering a different variant of Afrobeats. One of the artists leading this charge ...

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 ...

As Nigeria attains 60 years of age in its chequered history, and the Igbo Question which translates to the Nigerian Question is broached on the global stage, the precious gift Igbos bequeathed Nigeria ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rap artiste, Azubuike Chibuzo Nelson, aka Phyno has said he will take Igbo rap to the next level. In a recent chat with Tribune, he talked about his adaptation of indigenous language and its ...

Egwu bụ ihe e ji mara ndi Igbo. Igbo bụkwa ndị egwu na-amasị nke mere na ị ga-ahụta ya n'ihe dị iche iche Igbo na-eme. Ma ọ bụ ihe aṅurị, maọbụ ihe nwute, Igbo nwere egwu ha nwere maka emume ndị a.

As Nigeria attains 60 years of age in its chequered history, and the Igbo Question which translates to the Nigerian Question is broached on the global stage, the precious gift Igbos bequeathed Nigeria ...