Abuja celebrates the sound of peace and unity with “Reggae”

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Abuja celebrates the sound of peace and unity with “Reggae”  As the rest of the world prepares for the end of the year festive period, Reggae fans and artists gathered in Abuja, Nigeria to celebrate Reggae festival 2025  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/12/21/abuja-celebrates-the-sound-of-peace-and-unity-with-reggae  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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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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