 I mean, like, I love coming to Nigeria but one person that I really admire in Nigeria is you. Thank you. Do you know that I know you more than anyone in Nigeria? Oh yeah? I don't know if you know whether you are an entertainer, a musician, or an activist, or a politician. Well, the only thing I have not officially declared out of all those things is the politician. But everything else, that's me. Far's the bad guy. That's me. That's not your real name. My real name is Falare in Falano. Born and raised in Nigeria. Born and raised in Nigeria, raised throughout, apart from my university days. And where did you go for university? In the UK. The UK? University of Reading. Okay. So you went to university in the UK to study what? Yeah, I stayed in the UK for some time actually. Oh, okay. That's the UK accent. So where you stayed in the UK? I'm a place called Reading. Just 30 minutes. What course were you studying? Law. You did law? I did law. I'm a Paris star. Wow. And then from there? From there, I came back to Nigeria and I went to the Nigerian Law School. Why did you leave the UK in the first place? I just went for university and when I was done, I knew I couldn't live in that country. It's too cold. Sometimes, that's where I do depressed me. Are you going to say you are depressed in the UK? No. I wouldn't go that to that extent. But I say the weather is very gloomy. And you know, it just, ah, it wasn't, I didn't feel like I was at home. So I felt like I had to come back home. Came back home. Went to the Nigerian Law School officially qualified to practice as a Paris star. And then what happened? And then... I know what happened. And then I took my certificate. I kept it here. I took off the wig and gown. I hung it. And I said, look, this musical 18, this is what I want to do with my life. But will you call yourself a musician? Yeah, I'll call myself a musician. You know, for me, I won't call you a musician. Let me tell you your first song that I ever heard. I was in China that time. This is Nigeria. This is Nigeria. Do you know that song made you so famous in the entire Africa? I got to know you through that. What really inspired that song? This is Nigeria. It's basically inspired by... I mean, I think it's pretty clear. It's self-explanatory. It's everything that's happening on this side of the world. You know, of course I took Childish Gambino's This Is America. Yeah. And what I did was I interpreted it in my own way, from my own perspective. You know, it happens all the time. It's the culture, you know, in hip-hop. It's called, you know, doing a cover for a song. But I just thought, let me translate this from a Nigerian perspective. And I think it was very widely received. Very. The reason that everyone could relate with it is because it was so literal. It was so literal. It was so blatant. It was so in your face. It was not holding anything back. You know, it was not being... Not sugarcoating anything. Just putting it out there as it is. What do you think is the main problem of this country? Wow. Where do I start from? So many problems. So many issues. Where do I start from? Is it lack of electricity? Is it infrastructure? Is it education? Is it healthcare? Is it the grand problem of corruption? Where do I even start from? There's so many issues. But the main problem, the biggest problem that I think we're suffering from, is that we do not love ourselves enough. Wow. Let's come off a road. Not until they come. Not until they come. You said you do not love yourself like Asin? No. No. Not even once. Okay. You don't love yourselves asin? Yeah. I feel like as Africans as a whole, this is not even just Nigeria. As Africans as a whole, we don't love ourselves enough. I think a part of it is PTSD as well. It's PTSD from, of course, what we faced in the past historically. The slave trade era. The colonial era. So a lot of it is PTSD. So we haven't fully found who we are. And that's why some of our biggest issues are things that we took from the Europeans. Religion. Religion. You know, just the way of life, just the Western. Now, in most African countries, Nigeria, of course, being top of that list. In most African countries, everything that is being consumed, everything that is being used is not produced in the country. We are importing. Everything. Every single thing. How do you expect your economy to survive on that? How do you expect, if every single thing you have to pay for, you have to pay continuously, bring, oh, I want to brush my teeth. Pay. You know how much, if you wake up in Lagos, you know how much you are spending. Exactly. I wake up, I have to brush my teeth, toothpaste, I pay. I have to eat, I pay. Naturally, your pockets will fill it. And that's why economy keeps going down. Keeps. We need to believe in who we are. But we don't because the ordinary man thinks that if it's imported, it's good. Is it because of our mindset? It's a mindset. And that's why I said it is a colonial mindset, but we have not tapped out of it. We haven't. That's why we don't because I said we don't love ourselves. Are you trying to say that it's time for Africans to wake up? Yes, now, for black people all around the world, even in the United States, black lives matter. You know, black lives matter, black lives matter. And, you know, because those people are still continuously looking down on us. But once we start to love ourselves and believe in ourselves, other people will see the good in you now. If we are brothers, and we're not even treating each other good, how do you expect somebody that is an outsider to treat us good? Do you think that... Look at what is happening in Uganda. Oh my goodness. Museveni. Museveni is terrorizing Bobby Wine. Wine. How old is Museveni? But now, you see, let me tell you something. Whatever Museveni is doing, the entire AU is quiet. So, if African Union is quiet, what do you expect an ordinary citizen in Africa to do? Exactly. And that's what I'm saying. Mindset, the mindset especially of the crop of people that have stayed in power. You cannot imagine that Museveni was doing interview the other day. And they asked him, they said, Museveni, why have you refused to... I think it was Amampo. Amampo. Why have you refused to leave Uganda alone? What is it? He said that there's nobody that can do what he has done. He said, what have you done? He said, oh, I rescued them from diseases. Dying? From dying. Oh man, that is his achievement. Achievement. What is old, man? It's shameful. Man. It's disgraceful, man. The mindset. If you had the chance to change one thing in Africa, what would it be? This is it. This is what I've just said, you know, so I would, if I had some magical power, I would make everybody immediately tap out of that mindset. Just stop believing in who we are. Start, start, just like... There's a great man called... What's this man from Burkina Faso? Burkina Faso. Oh man. The... What's his name? I know his name. He's just... He's going in my head. Anyway, this is a great man from Burkina Faso. He was a young man. He was a young man when he took power. Yeah. He took power and he said to them, anything we're consuming, anything we're making... Sorry, anything we're consuming in this country, we're making it here. We're cutting away, you know, all European ties, because France, for the longest time, had a stronghold on Burkina Faso. But when it came in, that's when he even changed the name. That wasn't the name of the country at the time. You know, changing the name of the country to Burkina Faso, which has a meaning in their language, you know, basically alluding to the fact that, you know, everything is by us. Everything is for us. And that ideology, pan-Africanism, pan-Africanism, Tomosankara, that is the man. That is the man that I was trying to remember his name. He just had a moment there. So, if we all subscribe to this ideology, to let everybody just realize that come, we are the most intelligent, but the strongest physically. We are the chosen ones. But why can't we just see that? Do you think Africa will ever unite? Africa can definitely unite. There's so much beauty in Africa, you know, there's so much richness, so much wealth in Africa. And back to the point again, if everybody taps into this mentality, like I said, it's called pan-Africanism. So, once I believe in us, what we stand for, of course I will love you more. Naturally, I will love you more. And that's one Africa, that's unity. And I think since you're a musician, you know, Nigerian music, people are saying that Nigerian music should be born in Cameroon. Have you heard that? It's funny, I haven't heard it, bro, it's funny. Why are they born in Nigerian music in Cameroon? I don't even know why, because, I mean, all of us consume Nigerian music. I mean, they are the big brother of Africa, I don't know if you've heard it or not. You must understand that Nigerian music is here to stand. Do you have anything to say about people who rise against Nigerian music, saying that it should be born in their countries and all that? I think, just thinking now, just hearing it from you, I think what the issue is, is a struggle that we went through here too. But it was a long time ago, a very long time ago, against foreign music, music from the United States. There was a big uproar saying that radio stations were playing majority foreign music. They needed to include more Nigerian music. But what we did as artists over here was we just made sure our craft was hooked naturally by the late 90s, early 2000s. Naturally, you are not a station that's popping if you're not playing Nigerian music. It was because of the sheer quality, the sheer sweetness of the music that was coming out. So that was what we did as artists. So from my own perspective, that would be my responsibility. I wouldn't know from the other perspective, but it's an understandable grievance that people may have. We have a lot of young Nigerians watching us right now and also Africans in general. Young Africans, if you have a message for young Africans, what would that message be? My message for young Africans is we need to wake up. Thank you. We need to love ourselves. Black is amazing. Black is beautiful. Black is strong. African is intelligent. African is innovative. African is rich. African is wealthy. You need to love yourselves. You need to believe in who you are. And this guy is our starting point. This guy is not a musician. I don't know. I've been telling him he's not a musician. You need to quit that music career. Follow your passion because I've been following you keenly and believe me, you're a politician. We have to get that politician out of you, man. This is an interesting angle. If you think it's a politician, leave it as a comment. Let me know. I've been watching you a lot. I don't even know anything about your music, bro. All I know is this is Nigeria. Look how we live it now. Everybody's accrued me. Everybody's accrued me now. Thank you so much for talking to me. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this. Thank you so much. It's been nice hanging. I hope you're having fun in Lagos. Fantastic. I mean, Lagos is the second home for me. Nice. Nice. And tell them to subscribe and be part of this. Subscribe. Subscribe. Click on this button now to subscribe. Bad guys say so.