Fuji is a popular Nigerian musical genre. It arose from the improvisation Ajisari/were music tradition, which is a kind of Muslim music performed to wake believers before dawn during the Ramadan fasting season. Were music/Ajisari itself was made popular by the likes of Alhaji Dauda Epo-Akara, the deceased Ibadan-based “awurebe” founder and Ganiyu Kuti or [...]

Sikiru Ayinde, better known by his fans as Barrister, is the leading Yoruba fuji singer. Fuji is a style from Yoruba-land, sometimes described as Juju music without guitars. Fuji (called after Mount Fuji in Japan) is in fact a quite complex style, drawing on Yoruba percussion roots, while adding a muslim vocal feel.
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