I want you to go back to March 10, 2006, for a moment.
A small ceremony is taking place at the MUSON Centre in Onikan, Lagos. The hall is not full. The cameras are basic. The production is modest by every standard you would apply today. A publisher named Ayo Animashaun, who runs a magazine called Hip Hop World, has organised Nigeria’s first dedicated music awards night. He has a vision, and it is sitting in the shape of a gold-plated, head-shaped trophy that he has named the Headie.
Nobody in that room that night knows what they are sitting at the beginning of.
