Joey Akan, a Nigerian music journalist, has stated that Nigeria’s music history and success were built on cybercrime.
The journalist shared a tweet stating that yahoo boys (online fraudsters) funded and kept alive an industry with no institutional or corporate funding.
Joey tweeted;
Afrobeats Hall of Fame will never be complete without honourary mentions to Yahoo boys who funded and kept alive an industry with no institutional or corporate funding. It’s a reality we hate to admit, but huge parts of Nigerian music history and success were built on cybercrime.