Over the past three months, I did something I have always wanted to do but had little time for. I started work on understanding the music industry in relation to the different movements that make up the great hub of pop music in Lagos, Nigeria. I discovered that while everyone talks about creativity and expression as the foundation of their artistry, only one group truly applies it as a collective spirit.

Muri Okunola Park came alive last week Saturday as artistes and celebrities trooped in for the first Porkoyum Food Festival.

Nomenclature is integral to the human condition. The need to categorise is in order to separate one thing from another as a way of understanding what one is presented with secondary to which is prejudice or acceptance. New music by any generation will face an uphill battle to prove its worthiness to a preexisting order,…