About this episode
The power of music is that it does what no army, no money, no sermon can do. *1. It can change your state in 8 seconds.* A sad person puts on a Shatta Wale or Burna Boy track and in 8 seconds his shoulders are different. No drug acts that fast. No pastor preaches that fast. Music bypasses your logic and talks directly to your nervous system. *2. It can make strangers become one.* Go to Afrochella. 10,000 people who don't know each other, don't like each other, but when Black Sherif says "Kwaku the Traveller" - everyone sings the same line. For 3 minutes, there is no tribe, no class, no Ghana vs Nigeria. That's power governments don't have.
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