The worldwide economic situation is bleak. In Nigeria, that bleakness increases by many million folds.
From time immemorial, Nigerians have been singing of hardship. Both economic and otherwise. We keep hoping the future would be better.
But we’re currently in the future that many people predicted and looked forward to decades back. And guess what, it’s actually worse off than the past.
Here are 3 Nigerian songs that still apply today even though they were released years:
1. Fela’s Suffering and Smiling
38 years after its release, Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s Suffering and Smiling describes Nigeria and it’s economic situation better than ever:
Every day my people dey inside bus
Every day my people dey inside bus
Forty-nine sitting, ninety-nine standing
Them go pack themselves in like sardine
Them dey faint, them dey wake like cock
Them go reach house, water no dey
Them go reach bed, power no dey
Them go reach road, go-slow go come
Them go reach road, police go slap
Them go reach road, army go whip
Them go look pocket, money no dey
Them go reach work, query ready.
Image: 9jaLegal
2. Eedris AbdulKareem’s Nigeria Jaga Jaga
Nigeria Jaga Jaga was one song that got former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a tizzy with its release. The song decried the plight of the common Nigerian and the economic woes in the country. Wouldn’t you agree it still applies right now:
Nepa won di regular
419 for Nigeria
Agege to Ikeja (in 2004)
Na 100 naira
Fuel scarcity na popular
Action film for Nigeria
Don’t forget the Nigeria jaga jaga chorus.
Image: DailyGossipNG
3. African China’s Mr. President
Mr president is another oldie that is still goldie. And it still applies today.
Fuel e no dey
Brother eh transportation no dey
And our road e no good o
What about the NEPA people o
we no get light
Everybody just dey halla
fuel no dey, na how we wan survive
Many youth ready for work
but as work no dey
na how dey wan survive
We be giant of Africa
but to get visa enter Ghana
na WAEC [oh my God]
Policeman go see white
e go tell you say
I say that thing na red
Tell me something my people
Make una lead us well,
no let this nation to fall inside well
Image: NigerianFilms
What other songs do you think would fit into the Nigerian context of today?
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