African-American singer, Akon has made some shocking revelations.

He said; “In 2008, I spent my time in Nigeria developing what you see today as Afrobeats. And all of them can attest to it.”

“Wizkid was the first Nigerian artist we signed officially at that time. And then we went on to sign a group called P-Square, which was the first Nigerian group that made it internationally.”

“Wizkid was just the local Nigerian star before we touched him and it opened up to a bigger market. I wouldn’t want to take credit for all of it but I can tell you that if we didn’t do what we did, Afrobeats would still have been in the same position it was when we got to Nigeria in 2008. That I can tell you 100 per cent.”

“I brought the business side of music to Afrobeats because all Nigerian artists at that time knew about was the creative side of music. There was no business, no infrastructure, none of it attached to it.”