Seun Anikulapo Kuti who is popularly known as “the big bird” proffers a song in conjunction with the Egypt ’80 band: Theory of Goat and Yam. To explicate that Afrobeat extensively beats every genre within African continent and beyond, the legacy of Fela is generationally maintained with the core essence of Afrobeat, the message . By extension, sermon to the people and cudgel to the ‘goat.’ Goodluck Jonathan Seun’s Theory of Goat and Yam was written in the ‘black times’ and largely inspired by the former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who in his interview said: “the reason why our politicians steal is because we, the people, are like farmers that keep our goats too close to the yam; so, because the goat is too close to the yam, the goat eats the yam.” After this, Seun conjectured that the farmers must be eating grass if the goat are eating the yam. He sang: “And the people just dey work hard {Chorus} dey chop grass” A maxim of the Yoruba people reads: “Instead ...
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