Ogunbayo Harps On Preservation Of African Culture, Tradition

As occidental civilization tremendously impacts African accepted nine successful some affirmative and antagonistic dimensions, a Nigerian songwriter and African civilization ambassador, Michael Ogunbayo, popularly called DJ Mykejay, has stressed the request to sphere African civilization and contented from being eroded by migration from the continent.

Ogunbayo who has embarked connected an advocacy thrust to guarantee Africans overseas continuously place with their civilization and contented added that the advocacy would guarantee that the parents not lone clasp it but besides inculcate the aforesaid successful their children to proceed and prolong the thrust towards making African civilization globally accepted.

The United Kingdom (UK)-based Nigerian successful a chat with journalists to beforehand events towards celebrating Nigeria’s 65th independency anniversary, explained that the determination to embark connected the assertive advocacy thrust was informed by the find that successful the UK and galore different European nations, Nigerian civilization and that of different African nations were being taught successful schools, portion the owners of the civilization bash not beforehand and thatch their children astir African civilization and traditions.

‘’That is 1 of the large works I person been doing successful the UK, bringing galore Africans unneurotic to guarantee that they proceed to person a nexus with their civilization astatine home,” helium said.

DJ Mykejay stressed that galore Africans overseas bash not worth their civilization the mode foreigners, peculiarly those who person visited the country, cherish it.

“For instance, successful the UK, immoderate schools are teaching African civilization and tradition. And they bash this much than the mode we person been celebrating our civilization implicit the years. Most Nigerians successful the UK bash not let their children to talk their autochthonal languages. And that is what I person been doing since arriving successful the UK to guarantee that Nigerians surviving present person a nexus to their location done culture.

“The civilization that we are distancing ourselves from is what our hosts present are aiming to larn from us. Many of them cognize much astir the Nigerian civilization than those who stock the humor but are based successful the UK.

We each request to guarantee that the nationalist knows wherever we are from, and this is our culture”.
On however helium aims to guarantee an attitudinal change, the African civilization advocator disclosed that the advocacy would beryllium done done his euphony and events that would strictly beryllium enactment unneurotic to beforehand the African continent’s civilization and tradition.

Listing events which helium had participated successful to beforehand African civilization and tradition, to see the Amala festival, New Yam festival, and others, the ambassador revealed that his euphony would not deviate from celebrating the continent’s civilization and tradition.

While adding that done the music, the children person amended entree to their culture, Ogunbayo explained that the uniqueness of his songs was that they are inspired by his mode of beingness and from activities happening astir him.

“I blend my opus with world utilizing some the Western and African languages. I tin sing successful Yoruba and English simultaneously, and that has ever assisted the songs I constitute for artists. I besides guarantee that the opus promotes civilization and traditions.’’