Africa Music Law™

I am highly disappointed with the press release issued by Muna’s management team, signed off by Ayo Shonaiya. Being a manager or a label executive is distinct from being a Publicist. This statement underscores it. Your artist is being slaughtered, [...]

While most, including D’Banj, congratulated Don Jazzy for his brilliant move and launch of his new label Mavin Records, D’Banj’s brother Kayswitch “switches” things up. The artist takes it upon himself to “revenge” and become D’Banj’s “avenger” with the altered [...]

Muna Abii, a Nigerian Rapper, Ex-Beauty Queen and current ambassador for Lux Soap, recently went on an ego trip with veteran rapper Modenine. What do you say to this video clip that has just emerged from Nigezie TV? She is [...]

Davido, an artist and the son of a Nigerian billionaire, recently tweeted his paycheck of 10 Million Naira roughly $72,000/40,000 pounds on twitter. He referred to the check as “change.” In a country where the average citizen is said to [...]

From defamation lawsuits to copyright infringement claims, celebrities are being sued for bad behavior on social media.This new feature on AML documents celebrities behaving badly on social media. The actions may or may not lead to legal liability, however, in [...]

Artists do not send this kind of release below. This is not how a press release should look  or sound. Also, this artist sent the email to another blogger/music blog and bcc me. I categorically delete such emails. Send images [...]

Shakar El  is an artist who it appears has followed my work on my social media platforms: twitter, facebook etc. for a while now. As a result, he  is one artist I have paid attention to. I’ve talked about how [...]

I personally get tired of so called “beef” in Nigeria’s music industry. When the money starts converting to serious Naira/dollar/pounds, then maybe we can do all kinds of beefs. Until then, it is a waste of space and time. But, [...]

Nigerian DJs in the UK congregate for an inaugural celebration of the first annual Nigerian DJS UK Green & White Industry Party. Factory 78 who appear to have co-sponsored the event, take us through the journey. Shoutout to the Factory [...]

Nigeria’s music industry is growing in leaps and bounds. With the success of artists like D’Banj, M.I and P-Square, it’s almost like the industry is churning out new artistes everyday! In the sea of all these artists even with great [...]