Nigeria
What About Our Indigenous Music
Unarguably, music, till today still holds a central place in the affairs of man. It is among the very ?rst forms of behavior that we learn as children, and later when we learn other skills and acquire more knowledge, much of this reaches us through the medium of music/songs. For instance, most of the things we learn in elementary school are taught in songs we call Nursery Rhymes. We sing the Multiplication Times Table, we sing State and Capital, We sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and even beyond the elementary classes, in the Science College, we memorize the ?rst twenty elements with songs. Music
is a very vital component of the human existence. When babies cry, we croon a lullaby to calm their nerves. The essential function which music plays in all society is largely that of communication. Music, however, is a global language, we should agree. Music, beyond its cultural and language contents is a thing that connects more to the mind. That's why the music of Awilo sang in French hit the musical mainstream in Anglophone Nigeria. In a reception organized in honor of President Bill Clinton when he came to Nigeria, he danced perfectly to the live play of King Sunny Ade as though he