LAZY AFRICA

“Giants of Africa!”  That’s the line that captured that feeling of superiority from the past. We felt a sense of pride when we are referred to as “Giants” in comparison to our neighbours. Once, while watching CNN with some extended family members, an image in a special feature caught my eye. It was the picture of a malnourished African kid in some village. One of my uncles screamed “See how they suffer in other African countries. Thank God we are the giants of Africa. It can never be us!” When Burna Boy declared himself an African giant, he probably wasn’t channelling his Nigerian past, when we truly believed as a society that we are superior in any regard. Thankfully, we have lost all notions of that as we continue to mint poor people in alarming droves. Burna Boy’s fight for fonts might have been a foul reason for him to declare himself as one, but he is indeed an African giant. Together with his colleague and fellow Coachella performer, Mr Eazi, Nigerian music is blessed with