By Jibril Musa



There is a reason why Majek’s plight should concern every Nigerian. He was once a national pride. He brought global recognition to Nigeria. He was Nigeria’s best entry into reggae’s hall of fame. He did the country proud.

But in his present state, he is not a good picture to be proud of. Yet we cannot deny him. He deserved a token of our sympathy. He is deserved of the milk of human kindness in us. How do we redeem the rainmaker? That is the million dollar question.

Filmmaker Charles Novia once brought him back from the wilderness with the Little Patience album. After that brief respite, Majek returned to the wilds. Again, friends and fans rallied, curried a noblesse oblige from the Edo State government and took him in for rehabilitation. The effort ended as an exercise in futility. Majek woke up one day and zoomed off to America where he was a citizen since 1998. After the fiasco, we get glimpses of his warped life from disheartening pictures of him as destitute and from Youtube interviews where he appeared drunk and sounding like a broken record.

Mercifully, despite his somewhat ‘loony’ tendencies, Majek Fashek has not lost his art. Far from it. Music is still his soul. His voice still intact, his music sense not rusty either. Give him a guitar and in a jiffy he’d become sane, transformed into reggae extraordinaire that he used to be in the past.

Now the question: what is bugging Majek?

His insatiable thirst for alcohol is his manifest problem. If alcoholism is his problem, there is a method and there are institutions....

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