The name African China stands for "African Children Have Ideas Natural for African". He was born in a ghetto called Orile in Lagos, Nigeria. He had his secondary education at Iganmu High School and his primary education at Metropolitan Primary School.

He is from Imo state and he happened to be the last child of his mother. He started music in 1985 at the age of seven and went fully into music at the age of 18 in 1996, after his secondary school. He became a professional in the game in 1999. He got his first award at the Nigerian international song festival N.I.S.O.F.E. 99. before he had even released his debut album "Crisis" that later went on to win so many more awards like: *the best reggae/ ragga dancehall for Fanta Fame musical award 2003 merit award*, *Unfication peace award from the OPC*, *1st Nigerian Entertainment award*, *N.U.S.E.C award*, *Best award and Grand hotel award for best perfomance*...and many more.

He went on to release his sophomore album titled "Mr. President", one of the hottest selling album in the Nigeria. The Single from the album was also featured on the internationally released compilation "Lagos Stori Plenti - Urban Sounds from Nigeria" (Out Here Records), the first compilation of its kind concentrating on contemporary music from Nigeria. Part of the promotion for this compilation also saw him touring five German cities. African China considers his kind of music basically African in nature, he calls it, PIDGIN Reggae/dancehall. He further went on to say, his inspiration comes from the people on the street and GOD. I WANT TO BE SEEN LIKE EVERY OTHER NIGERIAN/AFRICAN, UNDERGOING PAINS LIKE OTHERS.

NOTHING DEY PA

Did you know African China got married to Mero Mariam Musa in 2012?

Did you know it is rumored that African China has 167 Children?