In the 1980s, I was a young freelance Entertainment reporter, mostly a stringer, for the Punch Entertainment Desk anchored by my mentor, Ladi Ayodeji. A few years later, I became the entertainment editor of the Saturday Highlife pages and the entertainment Editor of The Punch.
Majek Fashek was Artiste and Repertoire Manager for Tabansi Records.
He was also the lead guitarist and frontman for the Jah’Stix Reggae Band in the 1980s.
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We had a fantastic relationship.
Following his transition, I thought that it was important to capture those magical and complex moments with Majek and the Nigerian music scenes then.
I thought that if I had to write the memoir of one of the most iconic, yet, eccentric and brilliant musicians of my generation, I needed to go deeper into Nigeria’s music scenes before Majek Fashek, especially after the Civil War in the early 1970s and through the 1980s when Majek manifested as an amazing singer, songwriter, guitarist, and frontman for a unique first Nigerian Reggae music band with an engaging band name: JAHSTIX.
So, MAJEK FASHEK BEFORE AND AFTER THE RAIN is perhaps, one of the few Nigerian books that explored the history of Nigerian music and entertainment scenes after the war.
AzukaJebose
