Winnipeg Afrobeat artist makes music with love to combat war
Bolu Ajibade is just 23 years old, yet already the Nigerian Canadian artist has amassed more than one million streams of his music. The Winnipeg musician tells reporter Ayo Odeyemi why love is at the heart of all the music he makes.
'My music carries more of love ... because I feel like there's a lot of pain in the world,' says Bolu Ajibade
Bolu Ajibade is just 23 years old, yet already the Nigerian Canadian artist has amassed more than one million streams of his music.
That's why community reporter Ayo Odeyemi singled out the Afrobeat pop star as one of Manitoba's distinguished "Africanadians" — Odeyemi's phrase for Black Canadians who have "excelled, while breaking boundaries in friendly Manitoba."
They sat down together in the musician's Winnipeg home, where Odeyemi learned that love is at the heart of all the music Ajibade makes.
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