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Nice video. Phone cards, fashion, people (his friends?), photographs, games, books (Amos Tutuola‘s “The Palm Wine Drunkard”), Fela records, among others, are referenced by US-based soul singer Siji to re-imagine “home” in the video for his samba-inflected tune “Yearning For Home”: So is home 1970s Nigeria? nu-soul, boho New York City? Or does it matter?
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I dunno. It works for me. Yes it’s nu-soul, but that set of associations is also rich in Nigeria itself at the moment. There’s a home-grown affection for the vintage, and it’s not at all a bad thing.
(Fela is a good example: as big in Nigeria now as he’s ever been.)
It wasn’t clear that I liked it? My current obsession is another Nigerian singer, Nneka. Damn. I’ll post a blast of her videos later today.