According to Comb & Razor's Uchenna Ikonne, the years between 1979 & 1983 were Nigeria's Second Republic - when democracy finally returned after twenty-three years of uninterrupted military dictatorship. They were also the crest of Nigeria's oil boom, when surging oil prices made the petroleum-producing country a land of plenty. The influx of petrodollars meant an expansion in industry and the music industry in particular. While it was a boom time for a wide variety of popular music styles, the predominant commercial sound was a post-afrobeat, modern dance groove that retrofitted the relentless four-on-the-floor bass beat of disco to a more laid back soul shuffle, mixing in jazz-funk, synthesizer pop and afro feeling. At the time, it was locally referred to as "disco" but has since been recognized as its own unique genre retrospectively dubbed "Nigerian boogie."
