#new afrika shrine

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New Afrika Shrine, a club in Lagos, Nigeria.

Photo: Sunday Alamba/AP

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Wolfgang Tillmans Made Kuri After his Concert at New Afrika Shrine, Lagos, 2022

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“In the northern suburb of Ikeja, tucked away amid warehouses and factories, is the home of that sound, the New Afrika Shrine. This cavernous auditorium, with its corrugated metal roof and walls drained of their colour by years of humidity, is a reincarnation of the musical home of Fela Kuti, whose Afrobeat style – defined in part by the polyrhythmic drumming of Tony Allen – pointed the way to today’s Afrobeats sound. Although he died in 1997, Kuti’s life and influence are celebrated with Felabration, an annual week-long festival of music, art and politics. Ezra Collective, one of the most exciting bands to come out of Britain in years, have been invited to grace the stage at the Shrine for this year’s festival. It is more like a pilgrimage than a normal gig. Bandleader and drummer Femi Koleoso arrives at the venue by 2pm looking excited and tired: “I went back to the studio with some local musicians last night so didn’t get much sleep.” It must have been a late one as he was still dancing on the side of the stage to Made Kuti, grandson of Fela, at 1am. Clearly, he was determined not to waste a minute of the trip.”

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Welcome to Lagos

Welcome to Lagos, Nigeria's pulsating city filled with rich culture, energy, and an irresistible charm. Nestled on the beautiful Atlantic coastline, Lagos is a paradise for wanderers, hobbyists, and adventure seekers. From its bustling local markets to its serene beaches, stunning architecture to its delightful cuisine, Lagos offers a beautiful bouquet of experiences that will etch your heart and soul.

When to Go

The city experiences a tropical savanna climate with two seasonal shifts; the dry and wet season. . The dry season between November and March is the most favorable time to visit as the weather remains pleasant and several festivals & events are held during this period.

How to Get There

The main portal to Lagos is the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, with numerous international airlines operating direct flights from major cities across the globe. . Upon arrival, you will find taxis and ride-sharing services readily available for city transportation.

Where to Stay

From luxury to budget, Lagos provides a diverse range of accommodations. For a luxury stay, consider the city's exquisite five-star hotels boasting stunning views of the mighty Atlantic Ocean. If you're on a budget, guesthouses and hostels in neighborhoods like Victoria Island and Ikoyi are great picks. .

Culture

Lagos' culture is a splendid fusion of tradition and modernity. . It houses a wealth of artifacts and artworks narrating Nigeria's intriguing history. The New Afrika Shrine offers a rhythmic experience of traditional music and dance while paying homage to the legendary musician Fela Kuti.

Gastronomy

Embark on a culinary journey in Lagos with its tantalizing array of dishes. At Eko Atlantic City, a plethora of trendy restaurants serve both local and international cuisines. . For a more authentic taste, visit Balogun or Lekki markets for street food.

Activities

Lagos offers myriad activities. . Embark on a boat ride to Tarkwa Bay Beach for sunbathing, water sports, or simple relaxation. Art enthusiasts shouldn't miss the Nike Art Gallery, showcasing an extensive collection of African art.

Nightlife

The city comes alive after dark offering a pulsating nightlife scene. . Dance away at Quilox Nightclub or soak in the eclectic music scene at Bogobiri House hosting live performances.

Transport

Ride-sharing services like Uber and Taxify are the easiest way to navigate through the city. For a local experience, hop on a 'danfo', a yellow minibus.Embrace the city's energetic hustle, but be prepared for heavy traffic during rush hours.

Shopping

Lagos offers shopping experiences from traditional markets to modern malls. . For a more luxurious experience, try The Palms Shopping Mall or Ikeja City Mall.

Tips

- Embrace the city's energy and be open to its vibrant life. - Dress comfortably for the weather and respect local customs. - Engage with the warm and hospitable locals. From a stunning coastline to a rich cultural heritage, Lagos is a city that leaves you with unforgettable memories. . Let the spirit of Lagos captivate you as you explore its hidden gems. Read the full article

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messages + wise words from the shrine

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Let’s bring back awkward but cute Macron “dancing” at the New Afrika Shrine!

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First-time visitors to Lagos must make a pilgrimage to the New Afrika Shrine--for the music, the atmosphere, the snacks, the drinks made from local herbs—and really fat blunts.

A local’s guide to Nigeria’s megacity. 

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Made Kuti set to blow off the roof at the Afrika Shrine

Made Kuti set to blow off the roof at the Afrika Shrine

Made and Femi Kuti – Afrika Shrine Lagos, photo by Bolaji Alonge/Eyes of a Lagos Boy Afrobeat scion, Made Kuti and his band The Movement, are putting on a one-of-a-kind showcase at the New Afrika Shrine Lagos on Friday from 7pm, 14 May. Themed ‘A Night with Made Kuti and the Movement’, it is billed to be the first full show of the band at the arena that has seen Made play different instruments…

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#EndSARS: Police threaten to shut down New Afrika Shrine, says Seun Kuti https://nigerianeyez.blogspot.com/2020/11/endsars-police-threaten-to-shut-down.html

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2020

Rap:

Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red Polo G - The Goat Los and Nutty - Panagnl4e Vol. 2 Preservation - Eastern Medicine, Western Illness Sada Baby - Skuba Sada 2 (Deluxe) Medhane - Cold Water $ilkMoney - Attack Of The Future... / G.T.F.O.M.D Akai Solo - Eleventh Wind Roc Marciano - Mt. Marci Chief Keef - Ferrari Musik Rio Da Yung Og - City On My Back Armand Hammer - Shrines Max_B - Charly Tony Shhnow & 10kdunkin - Rp's & Plan B's Shawny Binladen - Merry Wickmas Babyface Ray - For You Tae Dawg - Ooze God / Dawgprint 2 Lil Baby - My Turn (Deluxe) TisaKorean - Wasteland Lil Uzi Vert - Luv vs The World 2 R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages Ka - Descendants of Cain 03 Greedo - Load It Up Vol. 01 TyFontaine - 1800 / Virtual World Moor Mother & billy woods - BRASS Boldy James - The Price Of Tea In China (Deluxe) Mad Moon - Mad Space Smino - She already decided mixtape G Herbo - PTSD B Side WTM Scoob - A Beautiful Drug / Don't Be Proud / I Went to Plu2o Young Nudy - Anyways KanKan - B4 AMGs & SRTs Drakeo the Ruler - We Know the Truth (Deluxe) Tree - The Blue Tape Yak Gotti - Gotti Outta Here KrispyLife Kidd & Ysr Gramz - Kid N Play CeeFineAss - Welcome to My City H31R - ve·loc·i·ty Baby Smoove - Hardwood Classic Lucki - Almost There Bandgang Lonnie Bands & Bandgang Javar - The Scamily Damedot - Mafia Lord (Chapter I)

Hm:

18veno – R4z / Pablo 21 Savage - Savage Mode II Akai Solo - Ride Alone, Fly Together / Like Hajime Autumn! - Ils Verront / Solitary DaBoii - Tour Vibes Dopeboy Ra - Mobstyle Duwap Kaine - Bad Kid From The 4 Flo Milli – Ho, why is you here Goonew - Big64 2 Hook - I Love You 2, Hook Key Glock - Yellow Tape Lil Durk - Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 (Deluxe) Lil Keed - Trapped On Cleveland 3 (Deluxe part) Lil Shane Krush - 5000 Degrees in the Field Los - Carlos \ G Shit Vol. 1 Master Holy - A Holy Journal Megan Thee Stallion - Good News MIKE - weight of the world NLE Choppa - Top Choppa PG RA - God's Gift Rod Wave - Pray 4 Love (Deluxe) Rylo Rodriguez - G.I.H.F Rx Papi - The Real Dominic Toretto/ Mood Sada Baby - Bartier Bounty 2 Spotemgottem - Final Destination Starlito – Paternity Leave Su'lan - Baby Glock Gang WB Nutty – TWYH (That's What Ya Heard) Yhung T.O. x DaBoii - Demon and Mufasa YN Jay - Coochie Land (Deluxe)

R&B:

amaarae - The Angel You Don't Know Brent Faiyaz - Fuck The World Teyana Taylor - The Album Liv.E - Couldn't Wait to Tell You... Brandy - B7 Kehlani - It Was Good Until It Wasn't keiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl

Amplify20 (info @ amplify2020.blogspot.com) :

Michael Pisaro-Liu - Tai Pi Bryan Eubanks - Qualia-Cosmos English - Democracy Keith Rowe - an assemblage - construct for 45 voices / GF SUC TARAB - 41 containers Vanessa Rossetto - perhaps at some time you have acted in a play- even if it was when you were a child Bonnie Jones - An Hour is a Sea Joe Foster - Since I Don't Know When Michael Rosenstein - Outer Cape Sojourn Lionel Marchetti - L'ignorance Kevin Drumm - Q Manja Ristić - Out Of Thin Air Benedict Drew - Music for crawling inside a costume Marc Baron - Elle a traversé deux fois la même rivière Shira Legmann - The Ganges Heather Frasch - The sound of objects helps me remember Zhu Wenbo - Open Reinier van Houdt - friction sleep maze (22 april 2020) / horizon without traveler (22 may 2020) Moniek Darge - Quarantine Butterfly Ivan Palacký - Sanctuary

Contemporary:

Choi Joonyong & Jin Sangtae - Hole In My Head Olli Aarni - Mustikoita ja kissankelloja Linda Catlin Smith - Meadow Naomi Pinnock - Lines and Spaces Dominique Lemaître - De l’espace trouver la fin et le milieu Manuel Pessôa de Lima - Realejo Sarah Hughes - I love this city and its outlying lands Philip Sulidae - Tupik Paolo Coteni - Nel Corso Del Tempo Lil Jurg Frey Live 5-2-2020 / Live 5-14-2020 Delphine Dora - L'inattingible Greg Stuart - Colluvium Du Yun - A Cockroach's Tarantella Clara Ianotta - Earthing Timothy McCormack - Karst Lucy Liyou - Welfare YIN YUE- An Amateur Compilation

Digital Beats:

DJ Diaki - Balani fou DJ MC - DA LEGENDARY HIT FACTORY Equiknoxx - Equiknoxx Music in 2020 Gooooose & DJ Scotch Egg - jac DJ Lycox - Kizas do Ly NÍDIA - Badjuda Sukulbembe FELIX - Oito ou Oitenta

Nice forms:

Elysia Crampton - ORCORARA 2010 Joanne Robertson - Painting Stupid Girls Lorenzo Senni - Scacco Matto Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Dylan Henner - The Invention of the Human Brannten Schnure - Ei, wir tun dir nichts zuleide! Space Afrika - hybtwibt Autechre - PLUS James Ferraro - Neurogeist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi & Burnt Friedman - Yek 2 Mark Fell & Will Guthrie - Infoldings Merula - Sleep Eiko Ishibashi - Hyakki Yagyō Various - Kulør 006 Employee - Hold Music Vol. 1

Techno / House?:

Serwed - Serwed II 33EMYBW - Arthropods Terrence Dixon - Galactic Halo Actress - 88 / Karma & Desire Nkisi - Initiation Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry Lord of the Isles - Whities 029

Jazz?:

Moor Mother - Circuit City Nick Malkin - A Typical Night in the Pit Lemon Quartet - Crestless Moor Mother and Olof Melander - ANTHOLOGIA 01 Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) Moor Mother - Clepsydra

Pop?:

Charli XCX - How i'm feeling now LISACHRIS - uchushimin meat computer - virtual house arrest FROMTHEHEART - things happen- it's ok! EM Records - S.D.S -零- (Subscription Double Suicide -Zero-)

New Old:

Foul Play - Origins Roland Kayn - Requiem Pour Patrice Lumumba George Lewis - Rainbow Family Henning Christiansen - Op.201 L´Essere Umano Erravando La Voca Errabando Adult Fantasies - Towers of Silence Notchnoi Prospekt - Курорты Кавказа (Health Resorts of the Caucasus) Charles Curtis - Performances & Recordings 1998-2018

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Seun Kuti Walked Out On Governor Sanwo-Olu at His Sister, Yeni Kuti’s Birthday Party

Seun Kuti Walked Out On Governor Sanwo-Olu at His Sister, Yeni Kuti’s Birthday Party

Fela’s last male fruit, Seun Kuti was caught on camera walking out on Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu at his elder sister’s Birthday party which took place in the New Afrika Shrine. The main reason why the pioneer of Naija Resistance Movement (MOP) and son of Afrobeat pioneer (Fela) walked out on the Governor is not yet be fully known, But Seun Kuti shared that he was displeased about…

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all new HEATHEN DISCO for July 19th, 2020

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Happy as heck with this show (esp. since the previous week’s episode failed to archive, and I was able to pick parts out of that and improve them this time).

New jams from Oily Boys, Clemency, Headroom, Liberation, Introduction, Ribbon Stage, Tangents, The Cowboy and Blind Eye.

Tracklist after the jump.

Oily Boys - 6trance (Cro Memory Grin, Cool Death, 2020)

Wayne Rogers - No Motion (At Home, Twisted Village, 2001)

Opium Monks - Secrets of Afrika (12″ single, Subway, 1988)

Hawkwind - Time We Left This World Today (Doremi Fasol Latido, United Artists, 1972)

mic break / 75 Dollar Bill - Snow Jumper's Harp (Power Failures, self-released, 2020)

Clemency - Testimony (References EP, 2 B REAL, 2020)

Vangelis - Let it Happen (Earth, Vertigo, 1973)

Dave Clark - Think of Me (Dave Clark & Friends, Columbia/EMI, 1971)

Headroom - Bend (Landing/Headroom split LP, Redscroll, 2020)

mic break / Stirrup+6 - Salt Lines (The Avondale Addition, Cuneiform, 2020)

Liberation - A Life Alone (Longtime Listener, ROS, 2020)

Equal Phaze - Skyline (Rhythm Mix) (split 12″ test pressing w/ Optik, no label, 1990)

Manaspara - Routine (Extended Mix) (12″ single, Sub Rosa, 1988)

Severed Heads - Petrol (Beyond the Southern Cross comp., Ink, 1984)

Severed Heads - Lamborghini (Adenoids, Vinyl-on-Demand, 1982/2008)

Baby Ford - Reprise (Ford Trax, Rhythm King, 1988)

Introduction - NITA (Introduction EP, Tenth Court, 2020)

mic break / Zombi - Fifth Point of the Pentagram (2020, Relapse, 2020)

Emitt Rhodes - With My Face on the Floor (Emitt Rhodes, Dunhill, 1970)

Ribbon Stage - Personal Hell (My Favorite Shrine 7″ EP, K, 2020)

Pleasure Leftists - Phenomenon / Already There (The Gate, Feel It, 2019)

Pylon - Working Is No Problem (Gyrate, DB, 1980)

The Embarrassment - Celebrity Art Party (The Embarrassment EP, Cynykyl, 1981)

Crystal Stilts - Sticks & Stones (Nature Noir, Sacred Bones, 2013)

mic / Quin Kirchner - Ecliptics (The Shadows and the Light, Astral Spirits, 2020)

Tangents - Recast (Risk Reaps Reward EP, Temporary Residence, 2020)

Can - Flow Motion (Faster but Slower) (Flow Motion, Harvest/EMI Electrola, 1976)

Timmy Thomas - Rainbow Power (Why Can’t We Live Together?, Glades, 1972)

Montel Palmer - Journey Beyond the Sockets (QUA?, Planet Rescue, 2019)

Total Control - The Hammer (Henge Beat, Iron Lung, 2011)

Snake Corps - Victory Parade (12″ single, Midnight Music, 1986)

The Cowboy - The Mist (Feel the Chi Releasing From You flexi EP, Feel It, 2020)

mic / Daniel Avery - Into the Arms of Stillness (Love + Light, Mute, 2020)

Danzig Vs. Donna Summer - Bad Mother (not on label, 2020)

Muscle Barbie - Head (Muscle Barbie, Harbinger Sound, 2018)

Colourbox - Baby I Love You So (12″ single, 4AD, 1986)

Spacemen 3 - Sometimes (Recurring, Fire, 1990)

The Bonnot Gang - Sawdust (Cassette, Bumpidee, mid-’90s)

Blind Eye - END (Blind Eye, self-released, 2020)

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Another Baba gone...... From the first time I ever heard his drumming on Fela Kuti's "Expensive Shit" with Afrika 70, the father of what feels so good about Afro-beat; Tony's grooves called to me to listen to Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon. The groove from the motherland that made the whole world dance, the groove of music rooted in social criticism to pave the way for social change. Still dreaming of going to the new Afrika Shrine some day to hear Femi, Sean and Yeni. Don't morose your face too long mourning his death, grab some vinyl from Tony's extensive catalog of albums with Fela, with Manu Dibango, King Sunny Ade, Zap Mama, Oumou Sangare, Hugh Masekela's latest album and read through the linear notes and peer at the photos. When you're done with that, dance to celebrate his life because that groove lives on. @allencodrum #tonyallen #afrobeat #groove #nigeria #paris #lagos #drums #fela #afrikashrine #music #goodmusic #westafrica #highlife (at Tampa Bay Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_qscz_gP0Y/?igshid=1kewjxhpx8tlc

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1st Felabration UK, a success, the legend lives on (Photos)

1st Felabration UK, a success, the legend lives on (Photos)

1st Felabration UK, a success, the legend lives on (Photos) (more…)

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Kareem’s life has changed since drawing President Macron – Manager  

Kareem with Président Macron

More fortune has come the way of 11-year-old artist, Kareem Waris Olamilekan, who drew the French President Emmanuel Macron, during a visit to New Afrika Shrine in Lagos.

After getting a house from the Lagos State Government, Ecobank Nigeria has signed an adoption agreement with his parents. Parts of the deal include seeing the young artist through his education and…

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New Afrika Shrine (places)

a tribute to the beloved Fela Kuti. 

a place for like-minded rebels to spark a jay and sip on palmwine.