Shaking things app – how smartphones revolutionised Nigerian music

You don't need a record company or a promo campaign to reach the huge audience of the Nigerian diaspora - just a WhatsApp account

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Boiler Room's recent broadcast from Nigeria - which we're revisiting on Guardian Music today - broke new ground. It was the first time a show had been live-streamed from a Lagos nightclub to the world. With the club's own Wi-Fi connection offering a flickering, untrustworthy signal, the stream was facilitated by chaining multiple mobile sim cards together, giving enough bandwidth to upload a few hours of high-quality video.