Yo-pop and Afro-juju Music in Nigeria (1980s)

The two biggest musicians of the 80s were Shina Peters and Segun Adewale, who began their professions performing in the mid-70s with Princ...

The two biggest musicians of the 80s were Shina Peters and Segun Adewale, who began their professions performing in the mid-70s with Prince Adekunle. They later left Adekunle and created a small partnership as Shina Adewale & the International Superstars before starting their solo professions. Adewale was the first person among the two to achieve success, when he became the greatest popular artist of Yo-pop.

The Yo-pop craze do nor last for so long, it was replaced by Shina Peters’ Afro-juju style, which broke into the mainstream after the production of Afro-Juju Series 1 in 1989. Afro-juju was a mixture of Afrobeat and fuji and it exploded such fervor among Shina’s supporters that the occurrence was dubbed Shinamania. However he was awarded as the Juju Musicians of the Year in 1990, Shina’s retain it, Shinamania sold respectively but was criticized by critics. His achievement opened up the field for the upcoming artists, though, leading to the achievement of fabulous Olu Fajemirokun and Adewale Ayuba. The same time saw the rise of new patterns like the funky juju initiated by Dele Taiwo.

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