#RevolutionNow: Burna Boy Slams Sowore For Asking Him To Join October 1 Anti-Buhari Protest

Nigeria’s self-acclaimed ‘best’ musician after Fela Kuti, Burna Boy, has lampooned the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, for asking him to join a protest scheduled for October 1 against policies of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Sowore, who is the publisher of Sahara Reporters, had taken to Twitter to question the comparison of Burna Boy to Fela when he (Burna Boy) has yet to lead any anti-government protest.

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Sowore had challenged the Grammy-nominated singer to prove that he is a “revolutionary musician” as he’s being described by joining the #RevolutionNow protest scheduled for October 1, 2010, across Nigeria and overseas.

He had tweeted: “Hello @burnaboy, everywhere I turn people describe you as a revolutionary musician, the foreign media even celebrate you compare you to Fela Kuti, but I am yet to see you lead anyone to a police station carrying a coffin for head of state! Join #Oct1stProtest #RevolutionNow.”

But responding, Burna Boy suggested that he did not want to die, saying: “Everybody is a Fela fan and supporter now that he is dead. Humans are so Funny, You politicians are ALL the same (especially in Nigeria) and Frankly I don’t trust none of you. @YeleSowore.”

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Meanwhile, ‘Coffin For Head Of State’ is a song released in 1981 by the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

The song partly talks about a protest march led by Fela, his family members, and the Young African Pioneers to the residence of Nigeria’s former military head of state, Olusegun Obasanjo, at Dodan army barracks on September 30, 1979.

Fela was protesting the death of his mother, which he accused the Obasanjo government of having a hand in.

Some soldiers that reportedly attacked Fela’s Kalakuta shrine were said to have thrown his mother out of a second-floor window, leading to her death.

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