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Nigerian pop star Wizkid and burgeoning singer Tems take to the colorful streets of Accra, Ghana, in the video for “Essence.”  A single from Wizkid’s 2020 album Made in Lagos, “Essence” finds Tems and Wiz longing for physical connection. The young stars glow, Wiz bare-chested and draped in diamonds, Tems …

Wizkid, a champion of the Nigerian genre known as afrobeats, released a pair of new songs this week, “Master Groove” and “Fever,” to mark his country’s independence day. Both songs add a lone, squeaky horn line to the usual lilting melodies that define afrobeats. In “Master Groove,” the beat is …