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From the implications of Billboard’s new ‘Afrobeats US’ category to the Afrobeats crossover records with Afro-descendant artists, Afrobeats may not be the catch-all label or lens we asked for, but it’s the one being used to describe the new wave of African music.
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is a Houston-based writer, educator, and researcher whose work has appeared in Vogue Magazine, Zora Magazine, Akoroko, Shadow & Act, Black Youth Project, and elsewhere.



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