Highlife gained popularity in southwestern cosmopolitan Lagos and was transformed in eastern Nigeria. By incorporating Igbo traditional folklore style, they created the Igbo highlife that now enjoys ...

Read the first part of this series on the pioneers of Igbo highlife music here. Igbo highlife provided comfort and hope for the Igbos, an ethnic group living mainly in southeastern Nigeria, after a ...

His didactic music filled with idioms, proverbs, and folktakes would make him into one of the most popular Igbo folk & Highlife artist in Nigerian history.

Obi Original is an Nigerian Minnesotan making Afrobeats music with his band, Obi Original and The Black Atlantics.

To talk about the Igbo Highlife Music, we have to draw years back after the civil war from 1967-1970, the period which greatly influenced the music genre. It was a period when everybody believed ...

Yoruba, Igbo, Benin only tribes in Nigeria – Davido Grammy-nominated singer David Adeleke popularly known as Davido has claimed that Nigeria has only three tribes, namely Yoruba, Igbo and Benin.

In the heart of Lagos, beneath the golden sun of August 20, 2025, the city stood still—not in the usual hustle of commerce, but in reverence. The Lagos State ...

Legit.ng in this article tells the legacy of Christy Igbokwe, Nigeria’s iconic Lady of Songs, whose music transcended cultures and tribes in the 70s and 80s.

Otherwise, there is actually an important sense in which Buhari could be regarded as the most Igbo-friendly Nigerian leader, if not ever, then at least in recent memory.