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ADURA FUN NIGERIA (Prayers For Nigeria)
Adura Fun Nigeria is a Yoruba vocal-piano composition that engages music as a socio-cultural testimony and artistic critique. Set in…
AYE BAJE (The World Decays)
Aye Bajẹ Tan (“The World Decays”) is a Yoruba art-music composition for solo soprano and piano that reflects on contemporary…
CHINEDUM (God Leads Me)
Chinedum (“God Leads Me”) is an Afrobeat-inspired gospel composition for solo voice that integrates a solo–chorus refrain structure with a…
EBI NPA WA! (We Are Hungry!)
Ebi Npa Wa! (“We Are Hungry!”) is a contemporary Nigerian SATB choral composition that transforms the nation’s current economic hardship…
FREEDOM SUITE
Freedom Suite is an intercultural orchestral composition that unites Western symphonic instruments with African indigenous idiophones and membranophones to create…
NNE MI (My Mother)
Nne Mi (“My Mother”) is a programmatic piano composition that transforms an Efik domestic folktale into a vivid musical narrative….
OUR GOD REIGNS!
Our God Reigns is an SATB choral composition with piano accompaniment that celebrates the sovereignty and victorious reign of God…
OYOMA
Oyoma is a contemporary piano composition that fuses atonality, pitch-cell organisation, and African rhythmic logic to create a distinctive Niger…
WA SURE FUN WON
Wá Ṣurẹ́ Fún Wọ́n (“Come Bless Them”) is a six-minute SATB choral composition that blends ceremonial solemnity with expressive warmth,…
Egwu Ndi Chiri Echichi: Rhythm, Ritual, and Intercultural Form in
This article presents an expanded musicological study of Egwu Ndi Chiri Echichi (The Dance of the Titled Men), a contemporary…
‘Tiwa ati Tiwon’ (Ours and Theirs): Interrogating the Intersection Between
African art music has generated sustained scholarly interest, particularly regarding its identity, pedagogical foundations, and the creative strategies through which…
Rhythmic Architecture and Tonal Identity in Afrobeats: A Compositional Analysis
Afrobeats, the contemporary Nigerian pop genre that emerged in late-1990s Lagos, draws on jùjú, highlife, hip hop, and electronic production…
Negotiating Nigerian Church Melodies Through Contemporary Compositional Practice: Seun Owoaje’s
Contemporary Nigerian art music continues to evolve through sustained interaction between indigenous musical traditions and Western compositional techniques….
Iya (Mother): A Structural and Compositional Analysis
Iya (Mother) is a contemporary African art-music composition that blends Western melodic instruments with African percussion timbres to create a…
Kabiyesi Hossana and the Evolution of Nigerian Art Music: A
Kabiyesi Hossana is a Yoruba nationalistic art composition for solo piano, derived from a 1972 liturgical chorus by the hymnologist…
Structural and Textual Dimensions of Bolojo Performance in Ogun West
This study examines how Bolojo, an indigenous Yewa musical genre, functions as a vehicle for cultural identity, social meaning, and…
Eye Orofo (Green Wild Pigeon): Indigenous ethics and musical semiotics
This article examines Ẹyẹ Òrófó, a contemporary Yoruba choral composition that employs the green wild pigeon as a metaphor to…