Oladele Ayorinde, an educator, pianist and cultural entrepreneur, is a ‘THInK’ (Transforming the Humanities through Interdisciplinary Knowledge) Doctoral Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa. Recently, he was also appointed as a Research Fellow of the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town. Situated within Music and Anthropology, Oladele’s doctoral research project is exploring the nexus between music, agency and social transformation in contemporary Africa. His research focuses on the political economy of Fuji music—a contemporary Yoruba popular music genre—in Lagos, Nigeria. Oladele is exploring how the so-called ‘street musicians’, Fuji musicians are re-imagining the society through their music and its ‘associated practices’, and what this enterprise might mean for the understanding of socio-cultural, political and economic transformation in a cosmopolitan African city like Lagos. Oladele’s research interests include South African music; Nigerian music; cultural and creative industries; archival theories, practice and management; ethnographies of African cultures, people and arts; artistic research in Africa, curating and theorising festivals; Global South studies; the political economy of popular music in Africa.