Nigeria: A Nation’s Identity Crisis - Blame the Rat Race (1)
Posted on Jul 21st, 2009 • Category: Entertainment
I read Dr. Reuben Abati's critique of Nigeria's Hip-Hop artistes, which was captioned "A nation's Identity Crisis", in the Guardian newspaper of June 21, 2009. He was to some extent correct. I also read the rejoinders of Eldee and Banky W published in the Guardian a week later. For me, I see Eldee unlike Banky W, who was more constructive, as somebody who gets paranoid over honest criticism. Both camps only scratched the surface of the issues. It appears Dr. Abati and the duo of Eldee and Banky W were defending their own generations of artistes without differentiating the two historical epochs - both were trapped.
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