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  • big meeting nuttin Ekstrom.

  • So now of X.

  • If I miss you call and I'm only talking the talk.

  • So Emerson Bacary is a musician and an activist on a mission.

  • Finally back in his home country of Sierra Leone after a four year stay in Nigeria, he's no stranger to controversy.

  • His music has made him a target of both ruling on opposition party supporters.

  • We've been crying for 59 years.

  • We deserve better.

  • Whatever is happening between the political parties, it's not our concern.

  • Their fights.

  • It's not our concern.

  • All we're asking for is a better Sierra Leone.

  • We're asking whatever it takes for them to sit on that round table, talk the politics, talk, talk and understand themselves for the betterment Off also unions.

  • His latest album, Nine Lives, was released in August, tackles issues of corruption, tribalism and partisanship.

  • McCarthy's lyrics have not shied away from the issues, and he's even been sent death threats because of them.

  • No.

  • In one track called coconut or coconut head, Macari sings.

  • Regardless of who's in power, there will be no change because they know we've made a strong decision to be blindly partisan.

  • It's hard surrendered for, You know, this is the 21st century, for God's sake, we're not asking for the world.

  • We're just asking for basic basic amenities like pipe on water.

  • His Afrobeat message is one that says, although power may shift hands, nothing changes for the poor in Sierra Leone as long as corrupt and incompetent officials continue to be elected.

big meeting nuttin Ekstrom.

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