Setting the Record Straight - Burna Boy Didn't Create a Music Genre Called Afrofusion TC_Africa: Nigeria
:"Afrobeats is a broad, generic term for African contemporary popular music with rhythmic and harmonic influences of West Africa's highlife and Afrobeat traditions and Euro-American funk and hip hop."
Afrofusion, as the name implies, is simply fusing other genres with Afrobeat. The heavy presence of Afrobeat is coupled with anything from pop to reggae, dancehall to jazz, with endless possibilities. The style was happening long before Burna Boy debuted. AsBurna Boy created the term 'Afrofusion', he did not start the practice of fusing several genres with Afrobeat, it is an old age practice in the Nigerian music industry ...
To me Afrofusion is akin to the film industries Nollywood and Bollywood, which go beyond film and music to adjacent spaces that include fashion, food and popular culture.
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