BOB MARLEY’S MUSIC AS WEAPON FOR REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE : IMPLICATION FOR A DYSFUNCTIONAL NIGERIA By Emmanuel Gandu
His songs have not only become indelible consolation melody for the marginalized, but universal struggle anthems and prayer emissaries to Jah.
Bob Marley's artistic musical fearlessness and radical ideological commitment to economic and political freedom should become a catalyst for an enduring and a people's vanguard for democratic change from a begger and dysfunctional state to an egalitarian country where no one goes to bed hungry.
Whatever happens, Bob Marley though since gone beckons on Nigeriains to revolutionarise the country through democratic change.Marley's smiling benevolence in heaven is a shining sun, a waving palm leaf. He is a string of musical hits which will continue to reverberate in oppressed and suppressed corners of a marginalised Nigeria.]
Bob Marley was a re...