Welcome to Vol 200 of the Spread!

Hello and welcome back to the Spread, your weekly edit of all the best stories and global news about Africans shaping mainstream culture.

Today is a special one. Vol 200. That's 200 weeks, which is just under four years of showing up every single week with stories about Africans shaping the world. What a thing. It has genuinely been a pleasure, finding these stories, following these artists and designers and filmmakers and athletes, and watching African culture continue to intersect with every part of global life.

We'd love to know which editions have stayed with you. Which stories made you stop scrolling, or sent you down a rabbit hole? Hit reply and tell us; we enjoy hearing from you. Speaking of which, we recently updated our guide on African muralists and graffiti artists based on recommendations we got in the comments. It makes this newsletter feel less like a one-sided broadcast.

Now onto the stories: two Nigerian artists are quietly building a new sound that the internet can't stop talking about, and the MTV VMAs have done something that has a lot of people in their feelings.

Omotola x

Now on to the real peel 👇

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