Burna Boy being nominated for 2020 Grammy Awards in the Best World Music Album category broke. The media frenzy that followed the announcement was frenetic – several media outlets ran editorials mentioning all the
Nigerians once nominated for the Grammys with links to artists resident in the country and those based abroad with Nigeria descent. But hardly did any of those stories expatiated on the symbolic significance of the nomination. From this Afro-pop music generation that started from the mid 90s to date, Burna Boy is the first artist in this era to single-handedly get a Grammy nod for his solo works. The thought of Burna Boy winning a Grammy award will be disruptively groundbreaking and will create a road map for other artists that intend t
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