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Afrobeats diplomacy: Using music as a potent diplomatic tool

9 years ago

Femi Kuti

In 2010, shortly after a lazy documentary, “Welcome to Lagos” aired on the BBC - where a British filmmaker “discovered” a community of people living in a refuse dump - drew the ire of Nigerians, BBC Africa asked people to describe Nigeria in one word using the hashtag #onewordnigeria.

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