Popular Beninese-American and Grammy Awards winning singer, Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, better known as Angélique Kidjo, has teamed up with popular Nigerian singer, Yemi Alade in a video for her latest song ‘Dignity’.
The music video ‘Dignity’ is cinematic storytelling that befits the message in the song.
Kidjo and Alade came together to inspire the visual with boldness and their undeniable presence making the video a powerful collaboration.
The music video opens on migrants who are working at a port and were unfairly laid off.
The video also reveals how the dance act as the organic force that liberates the song.
Yemi Alade, while interfaces with the song, brings a dynamic twist to the song as a passionate energy-driven activist who was directly involved in the EndSars movement.
In a statement towards the release of the music video, the Grammy award-winning singer, said, the song is an homage to the protestors of the #EndSars movement, according to her, many people think that police brutality only happens in America but it’s everywhere.
She said the song is against brutality stating that, the song is also about how we need to treat each other with dignity, treat nature with dignity, and treat ourselves with dignity.
He added, “because if we can’t see the dignity that Mother Nature gave to us, then we can walk tall? “
She maintains that the song ‘Dignity calls for the dignified treatment of Black people and also the dangerous attitudes of Africa leaders towards Black people.
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