Lagos.

Highlife and Afrobeat reach Paris in the mid-1980s through a handful of salons — Manu Dibango at La Chapelle des Lombards, Fela’s late tours, the Stern’s Africa catalogue. The current is small but persistent, and it seeds the next generation’s interest in Lagos as a sound rather than a story.

Bollywood scoring conventions enter the Lagos studio in the 2010s; conversely, Afrobeats production techniques run the other way. The current is bi-directional and runs across the index — not through Paris or New York, but directly between two southern pop centres.