There continue to be conversations over the origin of the term “Afrobeats”. For decades the Western world adopted the term Afrobeats to describe Pop music with sonic roots in Ghana and Nigeria and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. While there’s no codification of the history of the word “Afrobeats”, especially when it was created, and by whom it was created, the term came to be in the 2000s when it was first used to describe West African pop music. Afrobeats is said to get its name fromFela Kuti’s Afrobeat, which according to the documentary “Afrobeats: The Back Story,” was coined in the 1970…