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27. Mohbad protests, celebrities and social (non-)movements
1 hour 31 minutes Posted Oct 3, 2023 at 7:34 pm.
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We discussed the protests that accompanied the passing of the Afrobeatz recording artist, Mohbad, as well as the dark side of the Nigerian music industry (and discovered how this intersects with the origin story of @OAG).


Was there ever a pseudo-anarchist character to Naira Marley, as some observers (see references) proposed? Amid the current economic crisis, could one argue that 'the youths' were protesting about the 'wrong' Naira?


References:

On the politics of Marlianism: https://www.africasacountry.com/2020/10/good-influence


A critique of the politics of Marlianism:

https://africasacountry.com/2020/08/naira-marley-is-no-revolutionary


On social non-movements:

https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/endnotes-onward-barbarians