Afrobeats não é Afrobeat e já está por todo o lado

Diferente do Afrobeat de Fela Kuti, o Afrobeats é um estilo musical que a pretende apenas animar e divertir quem o escuta e dança,  O Afrobeats deixa as questões políticas para trás e contagia pistas de dança em todo o mundo, a partir de Lagos - Nigéria.

"Africa can be very stressful," he explains. "So you need things to make you loosen up and make you happy -- and music makes Nigerians happy."

Hammond says that Nigerian music today has changed a lot since the days of Kuti, who died in August 1997.

"Nigerian artists don't really want to get into politics," says Hammond. "They tend to stay far away from it because at the end of the day, you have different political parties, you don't want anyone to say you belong to this party or that party."

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