Burna Boy’s African Giant

African Giant focuses on how the album—both as a compendium of 19 songs—and its associated tour combined to foreground a case for African visibility and dimensionality as they are negotiated by contemporary African musicians on the world stage. While the album did not win Burna Boy a Grammy (that honor goes to 2020 album Twice as Tall), it illuminates the influences and Nigerian-diasporic cultural worlds to which Burna Boy’s craft might be read. The book explores the sonic, aesthetic, and discursive strategies adopted by Burna Boy in his quest for a distinct personal style and global acclaim and investigates the cultural force of Afrobeats through one of its key artists.