How Nigerian music history and success were built on cybercrime – Joey Akan

Award-winning music journalist, Joey Akan has disclosed how the Nigerian music history and success were built on cybercrime.

The Nigerian entertainment journalist, shared, a tweet in which he stated that yahoo boys (online fraudsters) funded and kept alive an industry with no institutional or corporate funding.

Joey tweeted;

Afrobeats Hall of Fame will never be complete without honourary mentions to Yahoo boys who funded and kept alive an industry with no institutional or corporate funding. It’s a reality we hate to admit, but huge parts of Nigerian music history and success were built on cybercrime.

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