With ongoing rallies and protests by Nigerian youths, Nneka has demonstrated that  there is room for creativity, in lighting this fire for change.

The 2009 Mobo award winner for Best African Act, performed a song in Port Harcourt “Vagabond in Power”. It was so “powerful” it attracted the State Security Service to the venue, who began to hassle her crew backstage (according to an FT report). Tom Burgis of Financial Times.com, says “Nneka regards giving voice to her people’s anger- mainly in pidgin lingua-franca, as her calling.”

The German-Nigerian 28 year old, is an internationally recognized singer who blends soul, reggae, hip pop and African style into her music. She will not be the first of her kind to inject the “hot pepper” of political revolution into music, as the father of it all in Nigeria, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Abami-eda) set the pace in the days of old. However, in her generation, our generation as today’s youths, she is the first after such a long time. Even the CNN report described the protests as a ‘rare display of anger’. This just shows that the youths have been silent for too long.

The international community is beginning to recognize the voices of the youths calling out for change in Nigeria’s socio-political situation. And Nneka’s voice through music is one of the platforms through which this message of change is spreading out. Tim Burgis says, “Nneka’s readiness to sing the truth to power places her among a generation of Nigerians whose frustration at the mismanagement of their country is beginning to bubble over into mobilizations ahead of next year’s elections.”

Nigeria is not the only country feeling the ‘music 4 politics’ sensation. Keiran Yates on The Guardian Music Blog dropped a post about how UK hip-hop is fast getting political too. The opening line goes, “with Palestine, terrorism and racism all filling verse space, the UK’s hip-hop fraternity is finally embracing social commentary”. The post then ends on the note that UK hip-hop has long craved voices that rival those politicized punks, and this could be the sound of a revolution.

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