Davido has had a great year. There’s no way to describe it. For an artist of his calibre, you would expect that this would be normal yearly service. Big artists are big because they are big artists.

The Nigerian style of music known as Afrobeats has quietly entranced a large swathe of the world’s population. “Pretty much every song on pop radio [in the U.K. now] is sort of a Mr. Eazi-style, chill ...