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Joshua Baraka tops Spotify charts in Uganda as Nigerian artists dominate

Joshua Baraka outperforms Davido and Kendrick Lamar on Uganda's Spotify charts, but West African dominance persists across albums and artists; a closer look at the numbers

A performance stage at the Nyege Nyege festival in Bujagali, Jinja, October 2015

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Nyege Nyege keeps on dancing, too fast for the moral police — and terrorists(?)

Annual music festival returns, with moral hysteria and bans replaced by terror warnings

The sound of the scam — how Afrobeats became a moral text for cybercrime

Joshua Baraka tops Spotify charts in Uganda as Nigerian artists dominate

Nyege Nyege keeps on dancing, too fast for the moral police — and terrorists(?)

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