Songbird Bukola Eremide popularly known as Asa
recently had an interview with RFI, a French
current affairs radio station , where she talked
about making her latest, third album, Bed of
Stone, the joys of learning to ride a motorbike
and why she’s feels so close to Nigeria’s
kidnapped schoolgirls.
Asa also why Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls are
a global problem that must be addressed.
On what inspires her latest album, Bed of stone
and ‘Dead Again’, she said “I’m in my best when
I am sad. Getting rid of extra load, I am not going
to be the girl who keeps quiet every day, now I
have the courage to tell you to go cos I see who
you really are. I went to the studio that day in
anger, I had never written in that anger, I get the
best result when I am sad but this one came so
fast and thankfully I was just arriving at the
studio when the song came.”
On growing up and use of Yoruba language, she
said “I suffered a lot as a child cos I didn’t know
Yoruba well, whenever I went to the market, it
was tough communicating with the traders so I
had to go and live with my grandma to learn
Yoruba….Fans do say my Yoruba is not as
straight as it should be but it’s all good.”
On the missing Chibok girls, she said “When the
incident happened, I imagined myself back in
school, growing up and going to fetch water at
the stream and not being protected…it is sad and
shocking…it could have happened to anybody and
it is something in my memory to write a song
about it in the future”
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