“Happy parent and happy children
Happy family there are happy country oh
Make you plan well for your life oh
If you love me, you go plan with me.
If you love me, you go wait for me.”
Those lyrics in Pidgin English come from a song by King Sunny Ade and Onyeka Onwenu titled “Wait for Me” used to promote family planning in the early 1990s.
For the longest time, music has been a powerful tool for social change, amplifying voices, shifting narratives, and demanding action. In Africa, music has always intertwined with social justice. There…
