Social Media Users Praises Asake As He Releases Lungu

Asake has been on the news lately since he released his new studio  Album Lungu.

In an article published by a former presidential aide Reno Omokri, where he appreciated the born star talent and his Yoruba heritage.

According to Reno: As Asake Proves That The Global Dominance of Music of Yoruba Origin Is Not a Fluke-

Asake’s new album, Lungu Boy, vindicates what I wrote about music of Yoruba origin last year. Listening to a song like Fuji Vibe makes you want to move as if you understand what the singer is saying. And that is what the musicology of the Yoruba language does to the human spirit. If you cannot translate it through words, you will nevertheless translate it via dance. I am not sure Afrobeats can thrive without using the Yoruba language as its basic foundation.

The thing about Yoruba is that I am not sure it is just a language. Because it speaks to you subliminally and instinctively and connects with your primal senses, which is why of all the languages and cultures of Black African enslaved people taken into the Americas, NONE has endured the enslavers’ effort to wipe them out like Yoruba.

Asake is the latest musical vessel winning the world over to the cause of Afrobeats, using the instrumentality of the deep native tongue of the Omoluabi Lukumi people.

Imagine having 5.8 million streams on Spotify on its first release day. This is phenomenal for an album largely composed in Yoruba! Numbers do not lie!

Nigeria will have a tough time competing with the West and East in science and technology. And even in physical endeavours, like athletics, our poor outing at the Paris Olympics indicates that we cannot rely on that route for our redemption as a people.

However, music and the arts are two areas where we have a comparative advantage and can be used to attain global dominance.

That is why I have previously said music of Yoruba origin should be studied as a course in Nigeria’s ivory towers, because it has the capacity to not only rapidly change Nigeria’s negative international image, but also to take our economy out of the doldrums by attracting music loving tourists to our nation, the way Rihanna has done in Barbados, and even in death, Bob Marley is doing for Jamaica.

For every decade of Nigeria’s existence as an independent nation, music of Yoruba origin has dominated our country, and now it is dominating the world.