naijaseeker: This going back and forth, unfortunately, overlooks the real issue which is football administration. SA football developed from 2016 till date because their administration facilitated it. Nobody knows what Omagbemi would have done if allowed the chance and the same with the current team. The NFF keep changing coaches so that the blame and spotlight will be shifted off them.
This is an example of what I was referring to. This is the 1994 edition of Lekki Sunsplash. Sonny Okosun was performing on stage, Fela was in his tent (you can see little Seun Kuti and Dede Mabiaku in the tent) and you can hear the fireworks.
The crowd urged Fela to "yab" Abacha, since he hadn't yabbed Abacha the way he had yabbed Babangida.
"Wetin una want make I talk? In the country of the blind the one eyed man is leading" (Abacha was cross-eyed).
"We get Babangida we think say things bad, now Abacha don come and everything turn to basha basha"
naptu2: 2 things I remember from Lekki Sun Splash '93 (December 1993).
R*s K*m*n* had finished performing and the next act was an unknown masked man named Lagbaja. The crowd was actually waiting for Fela to perform aand they were a bit impatient.
Then this guy (Lagbaja) gets on stage and starts singing "the way, the way, the way way" and people were wondering, "what the heck is this shit?" Then the first bottle landed on stage, then it started raining stones and bottles and Lagbaja ran off stage. I retreated back towards the coconut trees.
Eventually they had to bring R*s K*mo*n* back on stage to calm the crowd down. The crowd calmed down, but some were still singing "All we are saying, give us Fela".
2) Then the introductions began and the crowd went wild. Various people would come on stage and chant incantations. It really tripped me, but we all knew the drill, he was coming.
The crowd would not allow him sing when he eventually got on stage. They wanted him to say something about what had been going on in the country (June 12, Babangida, Abacha, Abiola, etc).
"What do you want me to say? I tell you before, when Babangida dey there, everything BADD well well. Now Abacha don dey there, everything don turn to basha basha ." The audience goes wild.
"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king". (Abacha was cross-eyed)
naptu2: The first few seconds of the video above was from Lekki Sunsplash.
I have written a lot about Lekki Sun-splash on Nairaland. That series of concerts was instrumental to the growth of Nigerian reggae in the 1980s and early 1990s.
I often went to the Bar Beach during holidays in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but sometime around 1984 there was a new beach that everybody was talking about. It was Lekki Beach.
We missed our way the very first time we went there. There was almost no other cars on the road. You could see the water mirage at the point that the road met the horizon. There was bush on both sides of the road. We drove for an eternity until we came to the end of the road (they hadn't finished constructing Lekki Expressway at that time).
We saw workmen and asked them where Lekki was. One of them asked us (in Yoruba) whether we were looking for the place that people "took breeze" or the place that they "ate beans". I understood that they were asking if we were looking for the beach or the prison. We said that we were searching for the beach and they told us that we had passed it.
The road leading to the beach had not been constructed, so you had to carry your food warmers and coolers and walk a long way through the bush and over beach like sand before you got to the beach. It seemed like suffering.
Anyway, sometime around 1986, Toyin Munis created a concert called Lekki Sunsplash. It was inspired by the Reggae Sunsplash concerts in Jamaica. The NTA often showed clips of Reggae Sunsplash back in the early 1980s.
People from all over Lagos thronged the Lekki Beach in December 1986 to see some of the biggest musicians in Nigeria perform. However, Lekki was not developed back then and many of them had to walk all the way from Lekki Beach to Sandfill in order to get home. It was like Exodus, the movement of Jah people.
It was at the 1993 edition of Lekki Sunsplash that I saw Lagbaja for the first time. Nobody knew who he was. Everybody was waiting for Fela to perform and this masked man took to the stage and was singing, "The way, the way, the way way". People were angry and they threw bottles at him. He had to flee from the stage. They brought ************ (I can't type his name because the spambot will ban me) back on stage to calm down the crowd.
One of those gossip magazines got a list of Fela's conditions for performing at Lekki Sunsplash and it basically went viral. The conditions included a certain level of quality for the sound equipment, he and his band would be transported to the venue in the morning and they would be fed breakfast and lunch, he must be the last person to perform, he must be paid upfront, etc. The contract stipulated that he could decide not to perform if any of the conditions was breached.
All the biggest reggae musicians, including almost everybody I listed on the first page, performed at Lekki Sunsplash.
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