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The juju superstar is not much in the public eye anymore. He spends most of his time in his remote ancestral village, a five-hour drive northeast of Lagos, and rarely performs. He also is notoriously elusive and rarely grants interviews. In he moved into the two-story house at 17 Ajileye Street, containing four separate apartments: two for his wives and two for himself. Independent living units would become his typical building style.

Across the street he would eventually build eight more apartments for his family. On a Sunday afternoon you will find that palm-tree-lined compound full of life, with Mr. The off-white house at No. The house is now a home to Mr. One resident is Sunday Okundaye, who started playing with Mr.

On a recent Sunday afternoon the retired conga player sat under the marquee of Fric Bar, a drinking spot next to No. Okundaye reminisced about the old days, when the band members used to sleep on the nightclub chairs waiting for a rich man to come in so they could sing his praises. Okundaye also recalled the walks back home from West End Coliseum, for at the time he and Mr.

Back then the streets of Lagos were still brightly lit, he said. So much has changed. West End Coliseum is no longer; it was demolished to make space for Eko Bridge, the second bridge connecting the mainland to the island, which was finished in And the fences of Miliki Spot, the venue of the other juju giant, Ebenezer Obey, now display the banners of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, inviting passers-by to come and worship.

Some venues, however, have remained. Every Saturday night, the brass sounds of high-life music a jazzy style that originated in Ghana reverberate in this open-air nightclub close to the National Stadium in the middle-class neighborhood of Surulere.

The tables on the veranda around the terrazzo dance floor were mostly occupied by elderly people. A man in a white traditional agbada robe tapped the rhythm with his cane, and a woman accessorized in gold — from her eye shadow and jewelry to her strappy sandals — danced while seated on her straight-back chair, bobbing her head and waving her arms.

The dance floor was never empty, even when it started to drizzle. A buxom old woman in a tight black dress had trouble shuffling down the three steps onto the dance floor, but once her hips started gyrating she seemed to shake off her age.

As she kicked off her slippers and her moves intensified, it was easy to imagine her as a young girl in the s who went dancing at West End Coliseum where the immensely popular Victor Olaiya and His Cool Cats, with Mr.

Olaiya on trumpet, also used to play. At a. Olaiya himself entered the club and sat down at a table to listen to the house band. On some nights, he even joins them on stage. People come to greet him like an old respected friend.

The trumpets and saxophones glinting in the moonlight and the gentle swing of the songs that go on and on get the audience into a trancelike state, frozen somewhere in the past, that makes it easy to keep dancing till dawn. Olaiya, now 84, is not only the most famous Nigerian exponent of high-life music but was a mentor to many of the later Lagos musicians. It was from Mr. Olaiya that Mr. Casa do Fernandez, one of the most eye-catching examples of Brazilian architecture in Lagos, was built in the midth century by freed slaves who had returned from Brazil.

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