4th April, 2012
Lami, Sound Sultan and 2Face have joined hands with Oxfam and its partners to call on Africans across the continent to take action to ensure that the famine being experienced in the Horn of Africa is the last in Africa.
The top Nigerian musicians have promised to work with Oxfam and other national and local organisations to raise awareness on current situations, end hunger in Nigeria and mobilise citizens to take action.
The three musicians have recorded a song which will be released soon. It will be followed by a series of public events to raise awareness and involve African leaders, the media and the general public on Africa’s food security crisis.
“We must prevent the reccurrence of food shortages in Nigeria and end hunger and famine in Africa,” Lami Phillips, Soul singer and United Nations Envoy on Food told Showbiz Trends.
The initiative is part of Oxfam’s global campaign that aims to empower men and women living in poverty to claim power in the way the world manages land, water and climate change, so that they can grow or buy enough food to eat now and in the future.
—Funsho Arogundade