‘Hakuna Matata’ is Swahili for ‘There is no problem here’ and it’s something Nigerian singer Dotman has said throughout his career. Whenever there is a ‘Dotman Kuraja,’ an ‘Hakuna Matata’ is never far behind. On February 5, 2021, that Swahili word became the title of his belated debut album.
Delivered mostly in Yoruba and Pidgin, Dotman’s distinct voice type, the album is a bed of consistently impeccable Afro-pop/Afro-Fusion production.
Even when the production hits Trap on, ‘
Mind,’ it is still a very resonant version of Emo/Cloud Rap. As on ‘
Mine,’ the topics addressed on the album range from love to providence.
Pigeons That Won’t Fly, Bloody Baboon and the Philemon Punishment, By Festus Adedayo 13 min read
Whatever Nigerians did to Buhari, he should be persuaded to please forgive us and halt this Philemon wound that his administration is inflicting on us. We apologise for our adultery of going to bed with him in 2015.
Fatalists haven’t yet returned from the market square. They had rushed there to parrot what they called the eerie signification of the news of pigeons that won’t fly at the National Arcade on January 14. It was at the annual commemoration of Nigeria’s fallen war heroes. According to them, there was a weird symbolism in President Muhammadu Buhari’s futile move to prod memorial pigeons to fly. Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma, also encountered the same futility in his quest to get the pigeons to fly. Over the years, this ceremonial act had traditionally gotten the pigeons flying into the sky. However, at the Armed Forces Remembrance event last week
‘Look at my life, is this how a celebrity’s home should look like?’ ‘Look at my life, is this how a celebrity’s home should look like?’
•Day Adewole Oniluola wept over his poverty
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Eyin eyan yi, ti nba ti wa ku nko? (You these people, what if I had died?).” That was how celebrated drummer, Alhaji Rahman Adewole, a.k.a. Oniluola – one who drums self into wealth – welcomed my crew and me to his house on May 24, 2019. I met him poor, very poor.
Oniluola’s death on Tuesday marked an almost total closure of the legends behind the genre of traditional Yoruba African music called Apala popularized by late Ayinla Omowura. Oniluola was the lead drummer of that leading Yoruba musicians. Killed on May 6, 1980 in a barroom squabble. Omowura and Adewole were the musical twin who popularized that genre. While Omowura passed on at the age of 47, Oniluola died last week at 97.
Legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani, is currently shooting an eponymous film based on the life and times of the late Àpàlà musician, Ayinla Yusuf, popularly known as Ayinla Omowura. Ferdinand Ekechukwu reports
Filming of ‘Ayinla’, a musical film on the life and times of the late Àpàlà music legend, Ayinla Yusuf, popularly known as Ayinla Omowura, has started in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Announcing the forthcoming biopic, ace filmmaker Tunde Kelani confirmed principal photography has kicked off for ‘Ayinla’ via his official Instagram page.
The cinematographer known for his love of adaptation of literary materials and exploring cultural phenomenon said this is an important but unusual film by many standards. The biopic will star Nollywood actor, Lateef Adedimeji as the lead character, Bimbo Manuel, Kunle Afolayan, Omowunmi Dada, Ade Laoye, and many others.