Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adekunle Gold (center) with the filmmakers behind 'The Odyssey' (L-R): director Abba T. Makama, executive producer Bobo Omotayo, ...

The language an artist uses in conveying their thoughts sometimes combines with the manner they deliver these thoughts to create a unique type of music that is elevated by diction, delivery, and ...

Adekunle Gold, a Nigerian artist, is scheduled to co-produce a documentary that honours Yoruba music. The documentary The Odyssey delves into a century of Yoruba music, tracing its roots from its ...

Introduction / Annemette Kirkegaard -- Big man, black president, masked one : models of the celebrity self in Yoruba popular music in Nigeria / Christopher Waterman -- "Modern traditional" music from ...

From the primeval age of Ayànàgalú (the Yorùbá pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yorùbá musical traditions have been shaped by individual performers: drummers, dancers, ...