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Afrobeat, a genre that emerged from West African creative hubs in the mid-20th century, has spent decades evolving far beyond its geographic origins, spreading across every inhabited continent to take root in local music scenes that reimagine its core structures to align with their own cultural, artistic, and communal priorities. This transnational evolution has spawned a vast array of sub-strains and experimental iterations, many of which fall under the broad umbrella of unclassified, other forms of Afrobeat that diverge from the more commercially prominent global iterations of the genre that have gained widespread mainstream attention in the 21st century.
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