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There is often a lack of specificity when people talk about virtually all forms of African art. Even the standard category ‘African ___’ is, itself, far too broad to convey the nuances of creativity across the continent. This lack of specificity has played out, particularly, in music journalism with the range of sounds made by African musicians being flattened into ‘Afrobeats’ or ‘Afropop’. In lazily labelling contemporary African musicians as ‘new’, ‘modern’, or ‘internati

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