GRAMMY settled the dispute of who the LEGEND is in the Afrobeat genre by giving FELA Anikulapokuti a.k.a Abami Eda a Lifetime Achievement award... This single honor placed Fela in a class of his own... far above any other African musician, especially in the Afrobeat space, let alone one boy who calls himself a kid.
Fela's legend is based on the fact that he single-handedly created a new genre, broke the barrier of freedom of expression, which cost him the life of his mother, compared to a kid who claims he is better than Fela who has not influenced all of Nigeria, let alone many generations. Wizkid's claim of legend is based on the size of his bank account and 1 billion streams on Spotify... When global artists like Beyonce, who are a million times bigger than Wizkid, name Fela as a major influence on their music, who is Wiz-what?
When Wizkid gets his own Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, maintains influence three decades after his death, and have his album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, he can talk about greatness...
This bothers me about some young Nigerians who feel the size of their bank account is what determines their worth and value, so they can now go home and stretch their hands to their father who laid the ground for them and call him by name. Pride always goes before a fall...
I quote the father of nukes himself, Albert Einstein , “ Mankind invented the atomic bomb , but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap ”… No nation should have nukes. If some would, then any nation who want should be able to… current situation creates a power imbalance because those who have it are seen as extremely powerful, and those who don’t are extremely weak nations… Here is a list of nations with nukes – declared and undeclared: U.S., China, Russia, Pakistan, India, France, UK, Israel, and North Korea . These countries host nukes from other countries – Germany , Italy , Türkiye , Belgium , Netherlands and Belarus … Many of USSR ’s former regions like Ukraine and Kazakhstan had nukes, and were tricked to give them up, a decision they all regret today. It is known that Japan , though do not have nukes, have capabilities to develop and launch them within a short time, even from the space. Why can’t other nations have nukes? Ownership of nukes is why Iran is holding the...
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