Bobby Benson and the sound of early Lagos

There are musicians who become famous, and there are musicians who become eras. Bobby Benson belongs firmly to the second category. To write about him is not simply to revisit the career of a gifted Nigerian bandleader, singer and entertainer. It is to enter the noisy, stylish, fast-changing world of urban Nigeria in the decades […]

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