Nigeria: Fuji Music in Nigeria - New Documentary Shines Light On a Popular African Culture

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Analysis - Nigerian singer Síkírù Àyìndé Barrister (1948-2010) pioneered fújì, a Yorùbá genre of popular dance music. In February 2024, historian Saheed Aderinto's documentary on the musician's life and times premiered. The Conversation Africa's Wale Fatade asked Aderinto about the film and the music it brings to our attention.

Fújì fuses Islamic philosophy and wordsmithing with Yoruba poetry and meaning-making to create sound, idioms and recreational habits. It does this across social classes, from the wealthy in the corridors of political power to the poor at the fringe. Its messages, politics, performance styles, space and sophistication reflect a wide range of realities.From the early 1970s, Ayinde Barrister began to expand the domain of wéré's performance.

Unlike other musicians who mostly commented on public politics, Ayinde Barrister turned fújì into a political ideology. He did this by creatively tapping into indigenous perspectives on politics to speak to the 20th century crisis of political leadership in Nigeria.Fújì is more than sound. It's a way of life for millions of Yoruba people. It's how they see the world around them.

To shoot the documentary in public libraries, cultural centres, galleries, art theatres, museums and facilities on university campuses, I wrote formal letters and lobbied to convince people that the story is a collective story that everyone should own. Allowing people to own a narrative doesn't necessarily mean they are familiar with the narrative -- it's connecting that narrative to what they are familiar with.

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