Through music, imagery, film, and archival reflections, we explore how Nigerian sound has shaped identity, influenced movements, and contributed to global culture over the last century. The iconic event takes place on Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 1.00pm – 9.00pm at Didi Museum, 175B Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
This cultural exploration will take the form of a full-day of immersive experience featuring museum installations that trace the evolution of rhythms, instruments, performance, visual and sonic memory and photo exhibition on the historic and contemporary visual narratives of Nigerian music culture and panel discussion by scholars, artists, and cultural workers to unpack 100 years of sound, influence, and innovation
ON Sunday, November 30, 2025, the Nsibidi Institute will host the general public to a landmark cultural gathering commemorating 100 years of Nigerian popular music and its profound visual, social, and historical impact, with the theme, ‘Naija Sounds and Vision Scapes.’ From the seminal recordings of Yoruba folk songs by Chief Ladipo Solanke, under the Zonophone label in 1925 ( three years after pioneer choral recordings of Rev J.J. Ransome-Kuti), the modern Nigerian popular music industry emerged.
Through music, imagery, film, and archival reflections, we explore how Nigerian sound has shaped identity, influenced movements, and contributed to global culture over the last century. The iconic event takes place on Sunday, November 30, 2025, at 1.00pm – 9.00pm at Didi Museum, 175B Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
This cultural exploration will take the form of a full-day of immersive experience featuring museum installations that trace the evolution of rhythms, instruments, performance, visual and sonic memory and a photo exhibition on the historic and contemporary visual narratives of Nigerian music culture and a panel discussion by scholars, artists, and cultural workers to unpack 100 years of sound, influence, and innovation.
Also, there will be screening of four remarkable films illuminating Nigeria’s musical and cultural journey that includes Chikezie Ifedobi’s critically acclaimed Celestine Ukwu biopic, Ije Enu, the detailed and sensitive tribute to the legendary musical sage, Fatai Rolling Dollar Unplugged made by Femi Odugbemi, Bamidele: The Dele Sosimi Story by Muni King-Keazor and Ed Keazor that traces the iconic story of the Afrobeat superstar, who was mentored by the legendary Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the endearing chronicle of the Nigerian disco scene of the 1970s and 1980s, My Father’s Book by Kagho Idhebor.
“Join us as we celebrate a century of rhythm, memory, and vision — and honour the artists, communities, and cultural forces that made Nigerian music a global heartbeat,” Nsibidi Insitute said in a statement.