Burna Boy ‘Monsters You Made’
Meji Alabi • Nigeria • 2020 • 4 min
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With a closing sample of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo on colonialism, this Burna Boy music video is an angry reminder that violence doesn’t happen in a vacuum, especially in Africa.
Why watch?
+14 million YouTube views
”We are the monsters you made.”
Burna Boy
Did you know?
That’s Chris Martin from Coldplay on the chorus.
Burna Boy was the first African artist to have two albums earn over one billion streams on Spotify. And the first African artist to win the BET Award for Best International Act three consecutive times. And he’s already won one Grammy from 11 nominations.
Born in England, director Meji Alabi grew up between Lagos, London and Texas. He won a Best Music Video Grammy for Beyoncé’s Brown Skin Girl, co-directed with Jenn Nkiru.
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