This book examines the importance of popular culture most especially reggae music as an essential tool of challenging bad leadership. The lyrics of Ras Kimono actually did. Ras Kimono was born on 9 May 1958 and was named Oseloke Augustine Onwubuya. He hails from Onicha Olona in Delta State and died on 10 June 2018 in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria. He was a Nigerian reggae artiste whose debut album ‘Under Pressure’ was released on the Premier Music label in 1989. The album had other hits such as Rhumba Stylee, ‘Under Pressure’ and ‘Natty Get Jail’. He later released other hit albums that challenged western imperialism, slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism, and African identity. He was an advocate of the poor, inequality, and social justice. His lyrics such as Under Pressure, Rhumba Style, What’s Gwan? Gimme Likkle Sugar, Kimono De Want, Rastafari Chant, Natty Get Jail, Kill Apartheid, Rub A Dub Master’ and Jah Guide reflects his fight against tyranny, African root, freedom, and self-realization. This book historicizes the importance of music as an essential tool of confronting tyranny
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Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo is a Nigerian Social Historian with a research interest in Health History, Music and Popular Cultural Studies, Gender, and Sexual Studies, Church History, Igbo Studies, Slave Studies. Sports History, Alcohol and Commodity marketing. Uche is the author of over 12 books and monographs in various fields of Social and Economic History. In addition, he has done a few biographical studies on Archdeacon Dennis, Pita Nwana, and Bob Marley. His articles in scholarly journals are over fifty as well as over 100 conference papers to his credit. His vast teaching experience span many Nigerian universities such as Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, Godfrey Okoye University Enugu and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo holds a Ph D in History and Strategic Studies from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and was a recipient of the University of Lagos Graduate Fellowship (2007-2009). He is a Visiting Senior Research Associate at the Becker Freidman Institute for Economics and a Scholar in residence at the Harris School of Public Policy Kelly Centre at the University of Chicago, USA. Uche is a widely traveled academic and has won several travel research grants across Africa, Europe, and USA. He has solely authored We Drank Palm Wine Until They Arrived: A Socio-Economic History of Alcohol in Southeastern Nigeria (New Jersey: Goldline and Jacobs, 2017) and co-authored Witchcraft and Nigerian Historiography (New Jersey: Goldline and Jacobs, 2024). He is one of the co-editors of the book Election Has No Meaning: A Re-Appraisal of the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria (Berlin, Galda Verlag, 2024) and the book editor of Bob Marley and the Struggle for Social Justice in Africa (Galda Verlag, 2024)
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