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The beat-heavy, electronic music from Nigeria has been gaining a global fan base and is a point of pride across Africa. It’s also finally helping local artists make real money. But is Afrobeats establishing a path to global domination that other genres can follow, or is an entire continent being reduced to one country’s signature sound?
Featuring
Kira Bindrim is the host of the Quartz Obsession podcast. She is an executive editor who works on global newsroom coverage and email products. She is obsessed with reality TV.
Ciku Kimeria is the editor of Quartz Africa, the guide to the important stories of innovation across the continent’s wide-ranging economies. She is obsessed with novels—she’s written two—and speaks English, Swahili, and French.
Show notes:
Quartz’s Afrobeats playlist on Spotify
open.spotify.com/playlist/0xSZF1Vx5pDPzKXPZgt1Eu?si=69cfcdba562c466c&nd=1
Essence by Wizkid
youtube.com/watch?v=jipQpjUA_o8
About Quartz
Quartz is a digital news outlet dedicated to telling stories at the intersection of the important and the interesting. Visit us at qz.com to read more.
The beat-heavy, electronic music from Nigeria has been gaining a global fan base and is a point of pride across Africa. It’s also finally helping local artists make real money. But is Afrobeats establishing a path to global domination that other genres can follow, or is an entire continent being reduced to one country’s signature sound?
Featuring
Kira Bindrim is the host of the Quartz Obsession podcast. She is an executive editor who works on global newsroom coverage and email products. She is obsessed with reality TV.
Ciku Kimeria is the editor of Quartz Africa, the guide to the important stories of innovation across the continent’s wide-ranging economies. She is obsessed with novels—she’s written two—and speaks English, Swahili, and French.
Show notes:
Quartz’s Afrobeats playlist on Spotify
open.spotify.com/playlist/0xSZF1Vx5pDPzKXPZgt1Eu?si=69cfcdba562c466c&nd=1
Essence by Wizkid
youtube.com/watch?v=jipQpjUA_o8
About Quartz
Quartz is a digital news outlet dedicated to telling stories at the intersection of the important and the interesting. Visit us at qz.com to read more.
