Ruth Temitayo
The day my mum first saw me pûffing igbo, she didn’t shóut or scóld me.
Instead, she looked me straight in the eye and said,
“Damini, so it has reached this point? Fine. If you must bûrn something, let it be stages around the world with your music.”
That same week, she drâgged me to the New Afrika Shrîne in Lagos.
The drums, the horns, the fire of AfroBeats hit me like lightning.
Right there, I knew — an African Giant had just been born.
— Odogwu Burna Boy
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