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Majek And The Death Of Protest Music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Simon Kolawole<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majekodunmi Fasheke, the Nigerian reggae music\nlegend and firebrand rasta who sang protest songs, spoke against police\nbrutality, fought for the downtrodden, promoted ethnic and religious harmony,\nand brought down the rain, clocked 58 on February 7, 2020 far away from the\npublic eye. He was recently treated at a London hospital for a life-threatening\nailment and is currently recuperating in the US. For those of us who adored\nMajek Fashek in the late 1980s and early 1990s, this is not a particularly\npalatable part of his life story. But it is impossible to forget the footprints\nof the supremely talented singer and guitarist who used to sing so much joy\ninto our ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have attended only four secular concerts in my\nlife \u2014 and three of them featured Majek. The first was late 1988, I think, when\nMAMSER, the orientation of Gen Ibrahim Babangida government, held a concert at\nthe Kwara Stadium Complex in Ilorin. I was studying for my A\u2019Levels at the\nKwara State Polytechnic at the time. Majek made a brief appearance and it meant\nthe world to me. I was over the moon seeing him in flesh for the first time.\nMonths later, he returned for his own concert. I did not think twice before\nbuying the ticket. He came on stage past midnight and set the whole place on\nfire. That was the first and only night concert I have attended since I was\nborn. I was glad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1990, when Dr Nelson Mandela was released from\njail by the South African apartheid government, a celebration concert was held\nat the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos. On seeing Majek as one of the artistes on\nthe list, I jumped up. I was an undergraduate at the University of Lagos then.\nI attended the concert with my partner-in-crime, Lanre Issa-Onilu (now national\npublicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress). The late John Chukwu\n(\u201cJC\u201d), the inimitable MC, cracked us up all day. I remember his joke about a\nman who went to report a case at a police station. The first question he asked\nthe officer on duty was: \u201cOga, how market?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only other \u201cMajekless\u201d concert I attended was\nLekki Sunsplash \u201889. Oh, there was a Majek couple: Sheila and Des. They were\nconservationists. No, they were not related to Majek. During their performance,\nSheila Majek threw her cassette, \u2018Green Leaves\u2019, into the crowd and I caught it\n\u2014 but I did not really catch her message; she was singing something like \u201cwe\nhave to preserve our wildlife species in Africa\u201d which was Greek to me then. I\nwas more interested in the message of Majek Fashek, the \u201cprisoner of\nconscience\u201d who wore handcuffs and rang the bell (as they do in white-garment\nchurches), telling us to \u201crepent, for the Kingdom of Jah is at hand\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I need to throw in some background here. I grew\nup in an omnivorous music environment. My uncles consumed all genres of music\nwith reckless abandon. I imitated them. But in the end I had a soft spot for\nreggae and naturally idolised Bob Marley. Historically, I would say Terra Kota\nopened the door for reggae in Nigeria with \u2018Lamentation of Sodom\u2019 in 1984.\n(Agreed, Sonny Okosuns\u2019 1977 hit, \u2018Fire in Soweto\u2019, was a reggae tune but he\nwas certainly not a reggae artiste). After Terra Kota came Pat Bio with\n\u2018Afrikan Reggae\u2019 in 1985. The Mandators had been on the scene before both men\nbut did not hit it until their third album, \u2018Crisis\u2019, in 1987. The \u2018Inflation\u2019\ntrack was massive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a sense in which it can be argued that\nMajek\u2019s 1988 debut album, \u2018Prisoner of Conscience\u2019, helped elevate reggae to\nthe Nigerian pop scene. The hit track, \u2018Send Down the Rain\u2019, was as popular as\n\u2018Happy Birthday to You\u2019. It was accompanied by the myth that anywhere he\nrendered the song, heavens opened up and the rains came tumbling down. People\nwere going to his concerts with umbrellas. The rains did fall occasionally but,\nfor the record, I did not experience any. Majek was an ever-present at\nconcerts. He was the star. When he bought a Peugeot 505 Evolution for N500,000\nin 1989, it was the talk of the town. That was the Range Rover Sport of those\ndays!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I bought the LP of \u2018Prisoner of Conscience\u2019\n(produced by the immortal Lemmy Jackson, who had also produced Terra Kota\u2019s\n\u2018Lamentation of Sodom\u2019) at Olufunmilayo Records, Ilorin, for N10. Not done, I\nalso bought the cassette for N4. So I had both the LP and the cassette. I loved\nhim that much! I had inherited a turntable from my father, who died in 1976 and\nleft behind a collection of LPs by Jim Reeves, Ebenezer Obey and plenty choirs,\nnotably the University of Ibadan Christian Choir. He was probably unhappy from\nthe great beyond as I regularly blasted the reggae rhythm on his hallowed\nturntable but I could not be bothered. Majek was a breath of fresh air and that\nwas all I cared about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majek\u2019s nine-track debut album had Marley\u2019s\nsignature all over it. I had to love him! There was hardly any track that did\nnot sample a line or two from the Jamaican legend. In \u2018Send Down the Rain\u2019, he\ntook \u2018I\u2019m a living man\/I\u2019ve got a lot of works to do\u2019 directly from Marley\u2019s\n\u2018Soul Rebel\u2019. Admittedly, he also borrowed from Peter Tosh\u2019s \u2018Feel No Way\u2019.\nMajek sang: \u2018You don\u2019t expect to sow cassava and reap up cocoyam\/You don\u2019t\nexpect to sow rice and reap up cassava\u2019, which is as close as possible to\nTosh\u2019s lines: \u2018Can I plant peas and reap rice\/Can I plant cocoa and reap\nyam\/Can I plant turnip and reap tomato.\u2019 But, overall, the Tosh influence on Majek\nwas close to nil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In \u2018I\u2019ve Got the Feeling\u2019, Majek sampled Jimi\nHendrix\u2019s \u2018Hey Joe\u2019 but took the line, \u2018When it hits me\/I\u2019ve no pain to feel in\nmy mind anymore\u2019, from Marley\u2019s \u2018Trenchtown Rock\u2019 where he sang: \u2018One good\nthing about music\/When it hits you feel no pain.\u2019 Even Majek\u2019s \u2018Genesis\u2019 was,\nconceptually, not unrelated to Marley\u2019s \u2018Exodus\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His cover of Marley\u2019s \u2018Redemption Song\u2019 was\nglorious. In \u2018Let the Righteous Cover the Earth\u2019, Majek echoed a line and tune\nfrom Marley\u2019s \u2018Revolution\u2019, a track from his 1974 debut solo album, \u2018Natty\nDread\u2019. (As an aside, Marley said this eternal truth in the track: \u2018Never make\na politician grant you a favour\/They will always want to control you forever.\u2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majek\u2019s singing was undeniably inspired by Marley\n\u2014 though his sound had some Hendrix influence as he flirted with rock, evident\nin \u2018Without You\u2019, the opening track in his second album, \u2018I&I Experience\u2019.\nDespite wearing dreadlocks, using the rhythm guitar liberally, playing bass the\nJamaican way, flying the green-gold-red flag and even having a spouse named\nRita \u2014 just like Marley \u2014 Majek said his brand of music should be called\nkpangolo. I did not find it funny. Creating a unique identity was good, but why\nrun away from the family tree? Reggae has many flavours \u2014 roots, lovers rock\nand dancehall. He could have called his own kpangolo reggae. I wouldn\u2019t have\nminded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soon, Majek was getting disconnected from Nigeria\nas he toyed with the US market. His music was becoming more rock and less\nreggae as he tried to sell snow to an Eskimo. It didn\u2019t work well, in my\nopinion. He was a king back in Nigeria, headlining every concert, adored all\nover the nation. He was like a prophet \u2014 in fact, Mandela was released a few\nmonths after he released the hit song, \u2018Free Mandela\u2019. His stock was on the\nrise, challenged on the pop scene only by Shina Peters\u2019 \u2018Afrojuju\u2019 series. And\nthen he relocated to America and the music basically petered out. But when the\nquest for the global stage did not work well for him, he should have quickly retraced\nhis steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigerian artistes who are now penetrating the\ninternational market today, such as WizKid, Burna Boy and Davido, are exporting\ntheir music, not trying to assimilate into some US genre. America has enough\nR&B and rock artistes. It would be tough taking those genres back to them.\nFela Anikulapo-Kuti sold Afrobeat to the world. He did not try to sell them\njazz. He stubbornly refused to shorten his tracks as demanded by his marketers\nwho wanted him to adopt his songs for more foreign airtime for commercial\nreasons. He created a space for himself. Majek tried to blend but it did not\nwork to plan. Today, you need not relocate abroad to break into the market. You\ncan do it from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the time Majek reappeared on the Nigerian\nscene, he had become a shadow of himself, ruined by drug habits that had\napparently been aggravated in the US. I was in tears seeing the pictures of a\nwretched Majek on the internet. Is this the same guy I trekked kilometres \u2014\nfrom Unity Road to the Kwara stadium in Ilorin \u2014 to watch just for a few\nminutes in 1988? Is this the Bob Marley alter ego that I adored? I was saddened\nto further read sometime last year that his life was in danger as a result of\nsome drug-related illness. A public appeal was launched to raise funds for his\ntreatment and billionaire businessman, Mr Femi Otedola, eventually came to his\naid. It is such a sad story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be regarded as an undiluted tribute to\nMajek that his exit from the Nigerian arena marked the beginning of the\ndisappearance of reggae from the pop scene. More significantly, his exit also\ndid great harm to protest music. In \u2018Police Brutality\u2019, for instance, he sought\nto mobilise Nigerians around the issue of extra judicial killings. That did not\nescape the notice of the police authorities. He sang: \u2018Dem dey loot\/Dem dey\nshoot\/Dem dey kill our leaders of tomorrow\/Instead of killing the armed robbers\/Dem\ndey kill all the taxi drivers\u2026 Dem dey suck the blood of the sufferers\/Eat the\nbread of the wanderers\u2026\u2019 We don\u2019t make such music again. Happy birthday to the\nRainmaker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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