Closeup July 26, 2022
The Cavemen: Highlife in the Age of Afrobeats
Fay Fay profiles the young Nigerian highlife act, The Cavemen.
In the age of slick, international Afrobeats music, and especially its epicenter, Lagos, Nigeria, one would not expect to find a group of 20-somethings composing and performing classic highlife music. But that is exactly what the two brothers known as The Cavemen do. And they’re finding success with the formula as well. Produced and narrated by Fay Fay.
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