Music Custodian is expanding.
We’re building a new generation of African music storytellers, curators, and cultural thinkers and we’re opening our doors.
We’re looking for:
– Music writers
– Culture researchers
– Content curators
– Playlist editors
– Sales & Marketing Exec.
– Graphic Design Lead
– VFX & Video Editor
If you are passionate about African music, culture, and storytelling, and want to be part of something meaningful, this one is for you.
This is an opportunity to:
– Build your portfolio
– Gain real industry exposure
– Work on impactful cultural narratives
– Grow into multiple paid opportunities over time
We are building a cultural movement decentralized across the continent and the global black diaspora 📡
Apply via DM or email.
#MusicCustodian #WorldWide #GlobalCollaborations #MusicJournalism #Africa
Streaming data has become the clearest lens through which to understand Africa’s evolving music economy
and Q1 2026 confirms Nigeria’s continued dominance, while simultaneously revealing the rise of a more diversified continental soundscape led by female artists and cross-regional expansion.
Habakkuk 2:3 🏠
Music Custodian ( @musiccustodian )exists to document, interpret, and preserve the evolution of African music and its global influence.
Through thoughtful journalism, artist documentation, cultural analysis, and creative industry intelligence, we serve as a platform where African music is not only reported but understood within its broader cultural, historical, and economic context.
Our work is guided by a commitment to intellectual integrity, cultural depth, and long-term preservation, ensuring that the sounds, stories, and movements shaping African music today are documented with care for the generations that will study them tomorrow.
Exciting times for the Kenyan music industry and the wider East African creative ecosystem.
The goal remains unchanged ; to continuously catalyse the excellence of African creatives while contextualising how we experience, document, and amplify the greatness embedded in our DNA 🧬
Conversations are evolving. Structures are aligning. Bridges are being strengthened across regions. From Lagos to Nairobi and beyond, the mission is clear: build permanent cultural memory, not momentary noise. We are not just telling stories - we are shaping ecosystems that allow African artistry to travel, scale, and endure.
This is only the beginning. @musiccustodian@onerpmafrc
Honored by my brother @thisis_mutuma 🏆
#MusicCustodian
#AfricanMusic
#CulturalStrategy
#EastAfricaToTheWorld
#InstitutionBuilding
There is a psychology behind @olaoluslawn work, and the polarization is deeply important for the African youth culture; subtle defiance of respectability politics (and this is where you will find me), stay with me for a sec!
Personally, and as you’ve come to realise through my storytelling and creativistry, chaos is not a lack of strategy - and Slawn embodies this philosophy to a T.
As a matter of fact, the chaos is patterned; the impulsivity is a façade. It takes a discerning, almost genius eye to see it and not everyone is meant to. People like @rv_windsor knows this!
Think Lagos traffic. London’s immigrant tension and that of the rest of the world. Internet overload. Hustle culture exhaustion. Joy and anger happening at once.
Last night, if that short, salient, subversive conversation @rv_windsor had with me about not giving an F, was anything to go by, Africa witnesses Slawn as a cultural agitator ; an artist who uses disorder, humour, and street logic to assert African presence in global creative spaces, without asking for permission.
Go to @thenahous and see for yourself. Period.
I visited Nifemi Marcus-Bello’s Oríkì — Acts I–III at Tiwani Contemporary and left feeling both educated and unsettled; in the best possible way.
His work practices a kind of listening: to metal, to trade routes, to the hands that shape refuse into ritual. The objects are quiet and uncompromising; they ask you to slow down and read shape as history.
In Yoruba we call it “arojinlẹ” interpreting to be — deep, critical thinking — practiced in form and material. @nmbello1 excavates the politics of value: how copper, bronze and aluminium move through extraction, repair and memory. What looks like a chair or bench is also a conversation about who makes value, where it travels, and how we remember what we discard.
If you’re in Lagos this season, see this show. It’s not decorative , one can say pedagogy in metal. It will change how you look at objects, labor, and the stories our cities keep carrying. @nmbello1@tiwanicontemporary
#NifemiMarcusBello #Oriki #MaterialAffirmations #LagosArtSeason #ContemporaryAfricanArt
Soaking up the raw, undiluted elixir of knowledge, craftsmanship, and humility of servitude emanating from this creative fountain in #BeninCity really felt like stepping into a timeless rhythm.
We visited the bronze-casting workshop of Phil Omadamwen, a sixth-generation bronze caster, whose quiet mastery revealed the profound devotion behind each piece.
Through the lost-wax process — an art that can take three to six months for a single sculpture — he walked us through every meticulous stage, from ideation to creation.
Each movement and each gesture carried the weight of centuries, echoing a lineage that has preserved the spiritual and technical essence of Benin artistry.
Standing here witnessing this feels like standing at the mouth of time itself — where memory is cast in metal and history breathes through art. You begin to realize that what makes these works powerful isn’t their global acclaim, but their pulse — the living energy of those who pour fire, sweat, and soul into them.
True artistry, after all, doesn’t reside in media validation. We often perceive beauty as great or worthy only because it’s been shown to us long enough. Yet the truest forms of beauty thrive in the unseen — raw, unfiltered, and undiluted — in workshops like Phil’s, where creation remains sacred, not performative.
Watching molten metal meet mold, I wasn’t just witnessing creation — I was touching history. The experience reminded me that artistry, at its purest, is an act of remembrance; a prayer whispered through generations. It is both inheritance and offering — a way of saying, we were here, and we still are.
What I carried away from that day in Benin was not just awe, but gratitude — for the artists who keep memory alive, and for the spirit of a culture that continues to cast its legacy in bronze.
#fortheculture #benin #artweek
An evening spent with @iamisigo graciously hosted by @bubuogisi was a masterclass in slow creation and intentional storytelling.
The SS26 private showcase unfolded less like a fashion presentation and more like a spiritual symposium — a dialogue between ancestry, rebellion, and design as philosophy.
Each silhouette carried echoes of the continent — handwoven textures, recycled materials, and silhouettes that blur the line between body and spirit.
Safe to say that @IAMISIGO doesn’t chase relevance; it redefines it. It is a living manifesto of African creativity that refuses reduction, embracing the patient tempo of craftsmanship as a form of resistance in a world obsessed with speed.
To witness this was to be reminded that artistry, at its truest form, is not just about aesthetics — it’s about inheritance, identity, and intention. In IAMISIGO’s world, creation remains sacred, and fashion becomes a language through which the soul still dares to speak.
#LetThemEatCake 😈💦
📸 - @sr_odey
