Originally Posted by Anteater

Yeah but in 1973 I doubt there were 60,000,000 English speaking people in Nigeria. I don't know what the music industry in that part of the world was like back then, but most of the bands I know of in that style who originated from any part of Africa weren't based out of their native countries. The majority of the band Osibisa, for example, literally relocated from Ghana to the U.K. in an attempt to break into the market because the opportunities (musically speaking) in Ghana weren't going to get them anywhere.