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The Vibrant Cultural Scene in Nigeria

NEWS | December 9, 2020
Clip du chanteur Wizkid
The singer Wizkid
Lagos is brimming with talent: in music, fashion, literature, and more. Indeed, the African continent is radiating creativity. These Nigerian icons are turning heads all over the world.

Nigeria is home to loads of internationally lauded music artists, from Burna Boy to Wizkid to Davido. Afro-fusion, a blend of afro-beat and RnB, has taken over Lagos and is experiencing a stratospheric rise in the charts. Burna Boy, one of the genre's prodigies, has racked up millions of views on YouTube, and signed collaborations with English and American artists such as Major Lazer and Jorja Smith. More recently with Wizkid, he featured on Beyonce's album for The Lion King: The Gift and also contributed to her latest project celebrating Black culture, Black is King, which embraced this rhythmic influence hailing from Nigeria.  

Queen B has also collaborated with Nigerian stylist Ugo Mozie, who now resides in the US, and has created ensembles for a number of other superstars, like Celine Dion and Justin Bieber. Mozie knows where he comes from: he keeps a close eye on the African fashion scene and takes every opportunity to sing its praises. The Nigerian American stylist Mobolaji Dawodu, who regularly turns out looks inspired by the continent's high-saturation ancestral know-how, he wasted no time in making his mark. In fact, he was recently namedfashion director at GQ, where he's dressed stars like Brad Pitt and Jared Leto.

But Nigeria's vibrant cultural scene is far from limited to fashion and music. Indeed, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has become a veritable star on the other side of the Atlantic. In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, just before being featured in Fortune magazine's list of 50 world leaders to keep an eye on. In 2018, Barack Obama recommended her novel Americanah, the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to the United States and the man she separates from to do so. HBO has plans to make a series based on the book. On the side of photography and art criticism, there's Teju Cole: contributing contemplative essays to publications like The New York Times and Document Journal, many of them included in his collection Known and Strange Things, he's also a lauded photographer and a brilliant novelist, having authored modern-day classics like Open City and Every Day is For the Thief.  

Nigerian cinema is also more than worthy of note. Since the early aughts, the local industry (which goes by the nickname "Nollywood") has been blowing up, with ambitious filmmakers producing feature-lengths presented at international festivals. A figure of the ascending generation, director Kunle Afolayan treats audiences to audacious flicks that mix thriller, Nigerian history, and current African affairs. Netflix also quickly invested in Nollywood, where the streaming giant is already a noteworthy distributer.

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