Afrobeats: How the music genre made it to the top of Glastonbury

For Starr, part of the reason for Afrobeats’ huge growth is the fact the sound is overwhelmingly positive.

“Afrobeats is enjoyment. You have to enjoy yourself, you have to be at a club or at a party to make the music that people want to dance to. And we like to dance,” she said.

“I feel like that’s why it’s our time. I think God has made it like that – because we make positive music, we make high vibrational music.”

Meanwhile in the UK, British artists have been developing their own style and sound, such as Afroswing, which merges Afrobeats with dancehall, grime, rap and R&B.

Grammy award winning producer Jae5, based in the UK, has produced mega-hits for Burna Boy and Dave.

“The main influence that I’m infusing things with is the African culture,” he told BBC News.

“I’ll make a hip hop song and it will still have a lot of percussive elements. I might make a ballad and I’ll have more percussive elements than a normal track. So the African sound is what is continuous in my music. The groove of Africa is very different to the groove over here.”

Having swept the globe and landed at Glastonbury, what’s next for Afrobeats?

Jae5 can see it going from strength to strength, as people are “infatuated” by the sound.

“The world is huge and Afrobeats has so much space to grow,” he said. “And the fact that [fans] are receiving it in the way they are is amazing.”

For more on the rise of Afrobeats, listen back to Black, African and British on BBC Radio 4.

Additional reporting by Mark Savage.