BANNED MUSIC, No. 14, Nigeria, Wole Soyinka and Tunji Oyelana, "I love my country"

[Toyin Falola]

In the 1980s, two creative minds – Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate for Literature, and Tunji Oyelana, a Nigerian musician and former lecturer at the University of Ibadan – began working on an album of music that would examine the corruption of Nigeria through satire. Together, they composed the song “I Love My Country,” which was a popular and funny piece about Nigeria’s hypocrisy and the struggles of the Nigerian people. This song was banned.

 

Both sides are fantastic, “I Love My Country” and “Chairman”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjq3Hg9-b7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cacP-6gwz0A

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjq3Hg9-b7Y

 

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GyitDd7-JY

 

 

I love My Country by Soyinka and Oyelana

 

I love my country - Tunji oyelana