Nigeria’s Afrobeats resonates all over Africa, and in the West, where young people sing and dance to the rhythms of Burna Boy, Wizkid and Tems.
But when it comes to the presidential election on February 25, when Africa’s most populous democracy votes for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, its singers have gone silent.
Nigeria often makes headlines because of the Boko Haram insurgency and jihadist groups in the northeast.
But the country is also the continent’s largest economy and birthplace of a musical genre that is soaring globally.
Afrobeats legends Burna Boy and Tems have won Grammy Awards
