How do those who defend criminals think Nigeria would be? Do they who justify crime think they can survive in a lawless and crime-filled society? If the answer is no, why should we excuse away criminals who claim they did what they did due to poverty?
Let us for a moment imagine that every Nigerian turned to crime because life in the country is hard. But does poverty justify crime in any way? To be fair, the life of the average Nigerian is very hard, statistics or no and it is very easy to want a respite from all the suffering. Usually, after crimes are committed and the perpetrators caught, once they are done blaming the devil, the next victim to appear on the blame dock is the country. Maybe Burna Boy was trying to show what unemployment and poverty can push people to do, but the lyrics and the video seem to be more of a justification than a critique. It is, therefore, a bit confusing when various scenes of obviously poor people committing crime for money pop up. The National Bureau of Statistics puts the estimated number of unemployed Nigerians at 23.1% The richest man in Africa still goes to work every morning.Įmployment and job creation should be priority for any government. When the video of Dangote starts, you would almost expect that Burna Boy was going to prove the importance of having a job and regular inflow of funds which was why he had titled his song Dangote and why the following text appeared on the screen. It is almost certain that anyone who had listened to the audio before watching its video might have had a consistent question niggling at the back of their heads along the lines of “is Burna Boy trying to justify crime?” Burna Boy’s new song Dangote incorporates elements from Fela’s music but is nothing like the latter’s songs.īut if the instrumentals and some lines in Dangote remind you of Fela, that is all the similarity you are going to get. Burna Boy is not only a regular at the shrine in recent times, his music has incorporated elements of Fela’s kind of music, and his latest song, Dangoteis not different. Or maybe it is better to say that he is more like family since his grandfather, Benson Idonije was once Fela’s manager.
Burna Boy has always been a fan of the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
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