How Nigeria's Most Restrictive Universities Became Unlikely Music Incubators

How Nigeria's Most Restrictive Universities Became Unlikely Music Incubators

There is an image most carry of where Nigerian music comes from. It involves open campuses and student unions, the kind of freedom that public universities have always traditionally offered. Institutions like University of Ibadan, University of Lagos, University of Benin have long been regarded as breeding grounds for talent, places where creative culture is allowed to breathe and find its first audience in the noise of a departmental show, a fr…