𝙼𝙸𝙺𝙴 𝙰𝚈𝙴𝙽𝙸

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Consultant @ Western-Way Music Company.

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Unity explained.

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@UchePOkoye Do you have any references for these claims?🤔 BTW, I’m a music scholar.

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@UchePOkoye 🤦

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@Believeiny48414 @DeadlineDayLive @GiveMeSport Spot on!🤣

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@OnGod467 @oxcarville @iamdjkinging Read my tweet again. This time, slowly.

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@SleazyExchange @gabriella_oma Great! Glad to see someone who still remember what he learned in music.

I've been doing music education since 2005.

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@damascots2014 @ipitch_official @AjMachalaa I don't know why you're being attacked. AfrobeatS is not a genre. It was a deliberate categorization meant to bring the kind of confusion we are experiencing. I don't know why some people will sit down and categorize all kinds of black music under an umbrella.

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@oxcarville @iamdjkinging AfrobeatS is just a categorization made by Grammys. Afrobeat, Highlife, Fuji etc are genres of music.

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@yabaleftonline Fela did not create AfrobeatS. He created Afrobeat, and the only artist who can genuinely share in the origin is the late Orlando Julius.

I'm sure most people here don't even know that there was something called Afro-Bass before Fela returned from his studies in the UK.

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@yabaleftonline The confusion began when some artists started calling themselves Afrobeat artists, despite genres like Afro-soul, fusion and Afrobeat inspired pop. The Grammys then amplified the confusion by using AfrobeatS as a broad category for various forms of African and Black music.

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@gabriella_oma It is also important to note that Eastern Nigeria did not make Highlife what it is today. The West and East have their distinct forms of Highlife, and as a music scholar, I can tell the difference just by listening to the instrumentation.

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@gabriella_oma Yes, Eastern Nigeria adopted it too and developed its own distinct form of highlife, but this happened much later.

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@SleazyExchange @gabriella_oma Are you referring to Femi Esho? or Segun Bucknor? You know I can't mention all. I only mentioned few names that I could remember.

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@Bigpaddy_1 Honestly, African parents are wicked😟

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@Real_Idcabasa @bankulli @AOT2 I believe he was misconstrued. Having said that, he goofed when he started rambling about Fela’s influence. Besides, he needs to understand the difference between Afrobeat (genre) and AfrobeatS (term) created by the Grammys for mischievous reasons.

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@gabriella_oma *originated from

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@gabriella_oma POC: Highlife originated in Ghana. Nigerians adopted and developed their own forms, with the West (not East), particularly Lagos, becoming an early centre. It was Bobby Benson that popularised it, with band boys like Victor Uwaifo, Roy Chicago, Rex Lawson, Victor Olaiya etc.

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@gwg_ng Highlife and Afrobeat are two completely different genres. The Grammys only created 'AfrobeatS' and grouped unrelated black music genres under it for their own selfishness. Besides Fela, the only artist who can genuinely share in the origin of Afrobeat is the late Orlando Julius

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@obobanj @AfricaFactsZone @SKSlovan They never reached the 'group stage.' They were eliminated during the qualifying stage.

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@official_esclub Good start.

They should also abolish the internal rule that states that only FA presidents can contest for the office of NFF president. They should allow technocrats who have the best interests of the federation at heart to lead.

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Me: Are guns allowed?

Security: Yes

Me: It's an AK47 o?!

Security: Yes, they are allowed.

Me: Can my friend come along? He only has a Slingshot catapult?

Security:

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This is not a meme anymore