THEY REALLY CRIED OUT WITH ALL THEY GOT

Truely through out all these year there have been people who stood up for what is right and not keeping quiet.Nigeria needs lots of people like this in other to cut us from corruption.these people that cried out some ended up dying but they passed a message and other people arose to fight for others because they were awakened by the voices of these people.

There are lots of them but I am going to be starting with my favourite Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), also professionally known as Fela Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick.He has been called "superstar, singer, musician, Panafricanist, polygamist, mystic, legend.During the height of his popularity, he was often hailed as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers

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Fela began applying these radical ideas in a pungent and systematic criticism of the Nigerian Government's own value system. Inevitably, the state began to fight back against both his political criticisms and what some government officials referred to as his 'immoral' lifestyle, Fela's house was raided in daylight by teams of soldiers and police.a few months after FESTAC, Fela's home was raided again, and this time the raid was carried out entirely by the military. Where his mother was thrown out of the house through the window and she died due to the complications of the injury.

Fela didn't stop speaking against the excesses of the military government at that time even after he lost his mother due to his revolt he kept on protesting against them even after prison until he died.and it really made a difference in the lives of many Nigerians even in the aspect of entertainment.

Dele Giwa was killed by a mail bomb in his Lagos home on 19 October 1986.unlike Fela, Dele Giwa used journalism as a means of speaking against the excesses of Nigerian government which led to his killing.Dele Giwa printed Ibrahim Babangida face on the cover four times and even criticised "anyone who attempted to make life unpleasant for Babangida".Later, the paper took a more hostile view of the Babangida regime hoping reduce the excesses of the government.

These people were not scared of losing their life or going to jail. They were brave and willing to use their own means like Fela music and Giwa journalism using them to cry out and I don't think there are still people like that.There are lots of people like that all over Africa but this are one the highly recognized ones in Nigeria.And they are still people like Nelson Mandela, Moshood Abiola who were also immortalized because they used their voices to cry against excesses.Now things are different and you can voice out without even facing close to what those in the past faced.

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