00:00as the rest of the world prepares for the end of the year festive period reggae fans and
00:06artists gathered in abuja nigeria to celebrate reggae festival 2025
00:14with his signature redeem and beads the john has reached far beyond his caribbean
00:19origins becoming a global phenomenon that transit cultural and geographical boundaries
00:30a general perspective about reggae it's uh conscious music all right everyone that is into
00:36reggae music is seen as a prophet because uh reggae music is not something that you just speak around
00:42with it it has to be in you okay it's inborn and so for every reggae artist or every every reggae
00:48musician that person is seen as a prophet and so you come every prophet comes with a message
00:53reggae music still has enough room to grow and nigeria especially but i've met my goodness so
01:00many talented top nuts all the way artists all the way up in nigeria here i think nigeria is
01:07apart from being the giant of africa i think worldwide will recognize for everything concerning
01:12entertainment some artists here see african reggae artists are finding very hard to catch up with
01:18their other colleagues and other johns in terms of sales and streaming online well most people in
01:25reggae outside nigeria especially in uk are basically underground artists so um i know of chucky over at
01:33portmots haven't where i live he is like the biggest out there and but when it comes to nigeria he's not
01:43really as good as we sound everyone doing the reggae music are doing well and everybody from different
01:49genres of music will listen to reggae so yeah reggae artists are doing well the sound speaks for itself
01:55so everyone in the reggae industry are doing perfectly well in 2018 unesco designated reggae music
02:03as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity michael dibia african news abuja nigeria
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