Africa Music Law™

An official Happy Friday greetings to you all! This week was a great week. I just felt very blessed the whole week. I had the opportunity to spend time with a few young persons I mentor and thoroughly enjoyed it. [...]

AML Music Industry Executive Obi Asika joins ultra cool AML film industry executives Emem Isong and Kunle Afolayan to discuss the business of the creative arts. Asika will specifically address where the money is, in entertainment. AML artists, events like [...]

Happy Friday folks! It is good to see a whole new generation of young talented artists emerge across Africa’s key music markets. As you all know, I do not find it fanciful to have such limited representation of women in [...]

Davido has begun to earn a reputation as a money sex starved out of control kid, albeit talented. If he is not seen hugging wads of money like his life depended on it or releasing an image of his very [...]

There is no doubt Africa is experiencing phenomenal growth with its creative industries. There are numerous exhibits evidencing this rapid growth. Even this article is one such exhibit. It used to be you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing ONLY about [...]

You all already know it is a major pet peeve of every blogger, journalist and publisher (print or online) to see their work stolen and attributed as work produced by the thieves. Yet, this act of stealing the content of [...]

QUESTION: Should local artists, especially the really good ones i.e. mega-local music stars, receive lower fees when they perform alongside their foreign counterparts in their local markets? In 2007, when I conducted D’Banj’s first and exclusive interview in his first [...]

AML Industry I shared with you all, earlier, the exciting official announcement of the launch of my law firm with my business partner today! However, I am not the only one with great news!! EME Records/Wizkid has signed a multi-million [...]

AML Industry, I have been hinting, since March 2012, that I had a surprise to reveal to you all! The cat is finally out of the bag. I am VERY PLEASED to announce, to you all, the launch of my [...]

American artists, labels and promoters doing business with Africa, by now AML industry, should be no surprise to you all. I have discussed this phenomenon and my expectations that the trend will continue to rise right here on AML. There [...]

I LOVE this initiative!!! Read on AML folks from Nigeria and all interested parties. “The Nigerian constitution for all project is an initiative to help tackle the knowledge gap prevalent amongst citizens by making the constitution easily accessible to Nigerians [...]

I remember many years ago when Big Brother aired in the USA. I watched a few episodes and decided it was the worst reality television programming I had ever seen. I think the networks agreed because it was a BIG [...]