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Genre Studies
Genre Studies
Genre Studies

06 Mar 24 12:00H

Genre Studies

With African Music Library

Ahead of the Lagos film premiere of "Ki'mon!: The Eastern Nigerian Afro-Funk Revolution 1970-1980," taking place on March 17, the African Music Library sat down with Afro-Funk veteran Eddie Offeyi, drummer and founding member of the Port Harcourt Afro-Funk band Heads Funk. In this conversation, Offeyi takes listeners on a journey through the history of Afro-Funk music coming out of the East, which to him fully finds life following the fallout of the Nigeria-Biafra War in 1970. Listen in as he name-drops his contemporaries, who formed groundbreaking bands like the Funkees, Wrinkars Experience, the Apostles, and more, and who shaped Nigeria's robust soundscape for years to come.

With Guest: Edward 'Eddie' Offeyi is the incredible drummer of Nigeria's Heads Funk Band, a seminal Afro-Funk outfit founded in Port Harcourt in the 1970s.