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Music is that one thing that can connect the whole wide world together. It's the great connector and bridge builder that connects different people, cultures and languages together and it also helps to build bridges across all the continents of the world.
Music is language in itself, it's a culture on its own and music can even be said to be tradition; it all depends on one's perspective.
Music as a universal language connects all the earth together and this is through the lyrics, beat and rhythm of the song that's being sung. In fact, music is the lingual franca of the world.
One thing I have realized when it comes to music is that there's no barrier of any sort of form. When it comes to music, there's no cultural barrier, when it comes to music, there's traditional barrier and most importantly there's no language barrier when it comes to music and that's why I said, music is the language of the world and the most acceptable language adopted by every nation or human.
No matter the race or color of the individual people of the world, music brings everyone together without any form of discrimination or racism.
Having said all these, I would like to share my experience about listening to music I know or have no knowledge of its language or rhythm in the past. It's in the late 1990s and early 2000s that a song came to our country Nigeria. Then, we were told that the song was from the border country that speaks French. The singer of the song was a french speaker and his name is AWILO LOKOMBA.
When this song came into my area, everyone accepted it and it's really the song in vogue during that time. Though none of the listeners or lovers of that music have any understanding of the language used to compose and sing the song, because of the universal acceptability of music as the world's official language, we all accepted the song without discriminating against it. Also, even without us knowing much about the beat and lyrics of the song, we all imbibed the dancing skills of the singer and back then, we really enjoyed the song with its beat and rhythm.
Also, the general acceptability of the Nigerian song far and wide is a real testament that music is the lingual franca of the universe. If we check very, singers like Asake, olamide, 9ice,.davido and their Nigerian singers contemporaries do use their local languages to sing most of which are Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa and so on. And whenever they sing using their local languages, their musical work is generally and globally acceptable no matter the race, gender or color of those who listen to their music work.
Even within the country where we have different dialects, my love for Ibo songs which are quite different from my Yoruba dialect cannot be overemphasized. Though I may not understand the message being passed across by the lyrics of the song clearly, the emotional feeling being released by the song would always catch me unaware and for this reason, the purpose of music being the universal Language of the world is being established.
We have also seen on many occasions where singers or musicians from every part of the world no matter their colors, races, and languages are being invited to come and perform at the biggest stage. Such big events include the sporting festivals, political inaugurations, religious gatherings just to mention but a few. This is an indication of music being the universal language of the world. Not only this, we have also seen musicians organising concerts far away from their own country. The likes of Asake, Davido and Burna Boy going to England to make use of the O2 Arena for their concerts is also a strong testament to the topic in discussion.
Also, the emotional connection that comes with music plus the therapeutic benefits embedded in it makes it a universal language. Like I said earlier, the bridging of different cultural differences and languages has really made music the official language of the world. Music is language in itself.
This is my entry to the afri-inleo initiative.
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