The Music of Nigeria in 1980s and 90s

During the early 80s both Ade and obey made a huge spectators outside of Nigeria. In 1982, Ade was collaborated to Island Records, who hoped to copy Bob Marley’s achievement and produced Juju music, which sold far beyond imaginations in Europe and the United States. Obey produced Current Affairs in 1980 on Virgin Records and then became a brief artist in the United Kingdom, but was not capable to retain his international career as long as Ade.

Ade led a brief time of the international popularity for juju, which ended in the year 1985 when he lost his record deal after the commercial failure of Aura (recorded with Stevie Wonder) and his ensemble walked out in the middle of a big Japanese tour. Ade’s brush with international well-known brought a lot of recognition from the mainstream record companies and support to encourage the burgeoning world music industry. At the end of 80s, juju had lost out to other patterns such as reggae, gospel and Yo-pop. In the 90s, though, fuji and juju remained well-known, as waka music and Nigerian reggae. During the very end of the year, hip hop music expanse to the country after being a main part of music in neighbouring areas such as Senegal.