National anthem: Deconstructing the military legacy

On Friday, November 18, 2011, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria , called for a referendum to gauge the preference of Nigerians on the two national anthems that the country has had since independence. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu made the call while presenting a paper, titled “Managing Nigeria’s Pluralism For Peace And National Development”, at the Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies , Kuru, Jos, Plateau State.

“It showed that the leaders and the followers at the time only paid lip service to the injunction of the anthem: Though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand. We failed miserably to deploy this mantra for peaceful co-existence and national development, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu said. “In several areas, Nigeria is stuck in the past, applying decadent policies to new, and more virulent problems. But at moments like this, the nation turns to the National Institute for new ideas that should make us break from the moribund past” Asiwaju Bola Tinubu stated.

One of the Judges, Professor Olufela Obafunmilayo “Fela” Sowande MBE was a Nigerian musician and composer. Considered the father of modern Nigerian art music, Sowande is perhaps the most internationally known African composer of works in the European “classical” idiom. In 1952, Professor Sowande became musical director of the Nigerian Broadcasting Service. In 1955 he was appointed MBE in the 1955 Queen’s Birthday Honours for this work. In 1962 he travelled to the United States on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship. In 1968, he moved to Howard University in Washington, D.C., then to the University of Pittsburgh.

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