The political history of Sierra Leone appears to be salvaging itself. Nonetheless, the epitome of examining the musical industry’s impact on political development in Sierra Leone is perhaps to create a forum of awareness that should and can be facilitated by musicians without political intimidation. Politicians and many journalists fail to understand that the musical industry is a subdivision of the media kinfolk. Thus, all media outlets ought to engage in protecting the freedom of musicians. At the moment, there is need to navigate critical thinking in an attempt to analyze the impact of the ‘Two Foot Arata’ song on politics, which release was produced at a critical time when the political atmosphere in Sierra Leone was so volatile that widespread corruption and violence continually intimidated inter-partisan acrimony in 2007. In discussing Mr. Emmerson Amidu Bockatie’s music, there is urge to look at how then opposition APC leadership and assumingly outrageous followers were rejoicing at the tune of that “Arata” melody in a very provocative mannerism against the then ruling SLPP government in 2007. There shouldn’t be any big deal at the moment about what the Emmerson music has brought or is bringing to Sierra Leone’s political community. Assuming that an excellent qualitative and or quantitative gyrate deserves similar or greater compensation in cash or kind for work well done, and then Emmerson should be reward but not reprimanded. However, the ‘Two Foot Arata’ lyrics served as a mechanism of political warm-up that boosted up the provocative initiatives of the APC against the SLPP in 2007 politicking. As such, APC politicians’ structured but despicable flip-flopping comments in an effort to mischaracterize the “Yesterday Betteh Pass Today” melody are political treacherousness and thanklessness directed to dent Mr. Emmerson’s business. Sierra Leoneans ought to put partisan politics or self-interest away to enhance unity, peace and economic development. The “Yesterday Betteh Pass Today” record is reminiscent of a Poetic Entertainment Therapy (PET) intended to emancipate accrued political agony of deprived citizens. It appears as if President Ernest Bai Koroma’s administration is getting madder against freedom of communication because it’s scarily losing political grounds. In the meantime, a nation encountering socioeconomic deprivation based on partisan wretchedness ought to be observing Mr. Emmerson’s music as invigorating factors of political consciousness. Also, both ‘Two Foot Arata’ and ‘Yesterday Betteh Pass Today’ music are representatives of a lozenge of therapeutic empowerment aimed at reinstating community trust in the role of musicians in local politics. However, both musical creations are equally suggestive of thought-provoking ecstasy versus annoyance in reversible settings. Thus, the casting of the annotation: a therapeutic ecstasy or an element of annoyance in an attempt to analyze the much criticized ‘Emmerson’ music, which by all means, is a debatable topic for the scholarly.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:27:24 +0000
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