Music was used as a tool by religious missionaries to control people of Nigeria. It doesn’t have to be Yoruba in particular.

From Lagos to Dar es Salaam, these artists use Yoruba, Swahili, Twi, and more to make global hits. See the full list here.

In an ambitious effort to chart the lineage of Yoruba and Afrobeats music over the past century and its global influence, Nigerian superstar Adekunle Gold has co-produced a forthcoming documentary ...

A new documentary, entitled “The Odyssey”, is set to detail Yoruba music’s 100-year history to Afrobeats and beyond. “The Odyssey” will take viewers on an illuminating journey through ...

The conference, themed “Evolution of Yoruba Traditional music and the influence on modern Nigerian pop culture” is slated for Tuesday, 6 March, 2018 (Today) at Park-Inn by Radisson, Abeokuta.

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Seun Kuti and Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey feature in 'The Odyssey,' a new film documenting the rise or Yoruba music and Afrobeats from Adekunle Gold.

Drums like the batá are now used more for music than for communication, though for 500 years they were the primary linguistic communicators in Nigerian and Dahomeyan villages. As an aside, I remember ...

Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century explores the role of the performer and the performing group in creating these traditions, contributing to the ongoing reorientation of scholarship on African ...

Award-winning music star Adekunle Gold will be co-producing a documentary that will span the last century of Yoruba music in collaboration with White House Productions.

Few days after he marked his 61st birthday, Fuji musician King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall popularly known as K1 De Ultimate has revealed his discontent with the present state of Yoruba music. He was ...

A former university lecturer has described the Yoruba language as very poetic and lyrical.