Pamela Mojekwu Reports from Chicago, U.S.A for ChatAfrikArticles.com
On getting to Ravinia, Wednesday July 1st, we walked around the grounds a bit before the concert started. We saw Nigerians decked out galore. (Trust us Nigerians; we know how to do it!) The crowd was mixed and some of the people we spoke to thought it was such a deal to come and listen to 2 great Nigerian musicians. Femi Kuti and Sunny Ade were featured. Ravinia is a place where concerts are held. It has large expansive grounds and people picnic out there during concerts. Several restaurants are scattered all over the grounds. Alcohol kiosks were strategically placed near the band shell. The band shell comes with seats and that is where all the action is.

And through a weapon of talent, he warned us in his satirical style about impending doom that likely to engulf his land. He was sure that unless we adopt a simple precept – justice and accountability – his land would be heading toward a tempestuous peril. He was regarded as a prophet of doom, though his saxophone was not a threat to his land, unlike the rumblings of their guns tucked in their tummies and cheeks. Nevertheless, successive governments treated him in a symbolic manner Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed were persecuted – simply because of his cocksure attitude.