BEYOND MUSIC: D\’Banj\’s Inspiring Speech

Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo (popularly known as D\’banj, born 9 June 1980) is a Nigerian singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and businessman. He has won several music awards, including the awards for Best African Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2007,^[3]Artist of the Year at the MTV Africa Music Awards 2009,^[4] Best International Act: Africa at the BET Awards 2011, and Best-selling African Artist at the 2014 World Music Awards. He adopted the stage name D\’banj, a combination of his first name Dapo and his surname Oyebanjo.

On a personal note however, I was not much of a fan of his till tonight; If anything, I am more of one of his biggest critics, That was till I watched his Ted talk and I see why there is so much depth in his songs beyond shallow lyrics and meaningless titles. Here is the story behind one of his songs.

This blew me away;

This should be our reasoning, this should be our thoughts as African youths, not meaningless squabbles for vain glory!