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Global Voices
Global Voices
Drummers entertaining #EndSARS protesters. Image by Salako Ayoola, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons, October 2020. Read Part One of this series here. Nigeria has a long history of protest music, and the fire to sing against the ills of Nigeria did not end in the 1970s. Towing the path of older musicians before them — who sang against military dictatorship and demanded the freedom of Nelson Mandela from the then apartheid South African government — young Nigerian singers have continued in that revered tradition of singing against social injustice. Despite some criticism that Nigerian protest music had…
