Nigeria, March 7 -- Iyabo Alake Osanle, easily the most phenomenal female Fuji musician of the 21st century, burst onto the male-dominated Fuji scene on the cusp of the millennium with rare gusto: a microphone in hand, an all-male Fuji band, an avalanche of lewd lyrics and street slang, a croaky 'masculine' voice, and unconventional demeanours that challenged people's pre-conceived notion of feminine creativity.

And just so the wolves within the Fuji kingdom knew that she wasn't coming out to play, she added a battle-signalling sobriquet for clarity: One-woman battalion.

It's plausible that Osanle herself wasn't conscious of the prevailing dynamics and the import of her combative entrance into the shark-infested waters of a male-dominat...