We return once again to the Niger River Delta , and some more Ijaw-language highlife music in the style known as awijiri . The rather...

About 20 years ago my wife Priscilla brought back from Nigeria about 40 albums of Ijaw (Izon)-language highlife music, or  Awigiri , ...

A while back I did a post devoted to awigiri , the highlife music of the Ijaw (Izon) people of the Niger Delta. I have quite a few LPs ...

Once again our friend Rainer has come through with an exceedingly rare artifact from the golden age of Nigerian highlife music, in this ca...

Note: This post was updated on October 4, 2009. My post "Divided Loyalties" inspired an anonymous reader to make available an in...

The recent dénouement of the 25-year Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka was reminiscent in many ways of the end of the Biafran war in Nigeria in...

As you may have noticed, I've been writing quite a bit lately about the music of Nigeria's "Eastern Minorities." By this I...

The Ijaw people , who number close to ten million people, are the fourth largest nationality in Nigeria. They are a majority in Bayelsa Stat...

Uchenna over at With Comb and Razor posts a song by Uyo-based band Sunny Risky and the Vitamin Explosions, which he says is the "Best....