Burna Boy — KOKO, London (YouTube Music Nights), 2024

Filmed live on 15 July 2024 at KOKO in Camden, London, this YouTube Music Nights set celebrates five years of Burna Boy’s 2019 album African Giant. Inside the thousand-capacity venue, the Nigerian afro-fusion artist reworks the record’s key tracks — among them Gum Body, Dangote and Gbona — backed by a live band and a string quartet that lend the arrangements a warmer, more organic texture. The roughly forty-five-minute programme reaches beyond African Giant itself, adding his debut single Like To Party and the later song Higher. This intimate format contrasts with the arenas and stadiums Burna Boy now headlines, foregrounding his writing, his voice and the blend of afrobeats, dancehall and pop that defines his sound. Conceived as a one-off event streamed live on YouTube, this London full concert documents a specific chapter in the career of one of the most widely exported African artists of his generation. It works as both a fresh reading of a landmark album and a snapshot of a precise moment, poised between Lagos heritage and a global audience following his every release.