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Orlando Weekly | July 5, 2007

With so much (deserved) attention focused on the Afrobeat and highlife music that came out of Lagos in the ’60s and ’70s, it’s easy to assume that Nigeria was the only country on the continent that was churning out those slinky, sweaty grooves.

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