Afrobeats Intelligence presented by OkayAfrica
Joey AkanAfrobeats Intelligence is a weekly podcast and newsletter on African music curated by multi-award winning journalist, Joey Akan. It is published every Monday.
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Dr Sid Is Still On The Field
There is a test Dr. Sid applies to his own life, and he returns to it often enough that it has become practice rather than a thought. It goes like this: when he is no longer here, and his children look back at his career, what will they see...
Sarz Believes in Destiny, As Long As He Controls It
There is a story Sarz tells about the first time he sat in a real American studio, and it is not really a story about America. He had been flown in, nervous, looking for an A&R rep, when he noticed Timbaland through a glass door, making a b...
Excel Joab: The Man Who Reads the Room
We are neighbors, Excel Joab and I. When either of us is frustrated about the industry, we walk to each other’s house and rant. It sounds like a small thing until you understand what it means to have someone nearby who is fluent in your mus...
Kcee: The King Who Stayed
The night I watched Kcee perform at Bayelsa, January 1 of 2025, he did not do a regular set. He ran a ceremony. Three acts, a full band, masquerades pulling up mid-song. The crowd went somewhere else entirely. I remember leaning over to him...
Ladipoe: The Price Is Never on the Tag
It is December, and Ladipoe has just turned down a gig.
Not because the money was wrong. But it was Christmas Day, and the logistics of getting there and being fully present for that amount didn’t feel worth what the day meant to him. He m...
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