Here's a mysterious Nigerian album, Idanre Makin (Idanre Makin EILP 002) I got not too long ago - by a Yoruba vocal/percussion grou...

Even if I weren't already a huge fan of Lanrewaju Adepọju, I would have bought this album for the cover art alone! Aláfọwósowópó...

I just came into possession of a raft of great Yoruba recordings from Nigeria - lots of jùjú, àpàlà fújì, wákà, èwi, what have you - ...

I just realized that Ramadan this year begins the evening of May 5 and ends the evening of June 4. It's a little early, but I thoug...

Wow, check out the tribal marks on these guys! The cover of Iya Alakara (Awurebe Records DELP 8303, 1983) is arresting, the music on the...

A few days ago I posted an album by King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal 1, one of the reigning triumvirate of fújì  music in the 1980s. The other...

Unbelievably, my last post here on Likembe was on April 23, 2013 - more than four years ago! There's no one explanation for the h...

To an outsider, Lanrewaju Adepoju's Èwì would seem to be just another one of the many Yoruba percussion styles that are so popular ...

We were shopping on Nnamdi Azikiwe St. in central Lagos when we came across a fascinating sight: hundreds of men were prostrate and barefoo...