This is not just a song. It is something of a polemic, with one discontented young man, reaching out for the microphone and attempting to shake up his generation out of the slumber that he fears will sink them. For that reason, one looks at Benezeri’s song in two ways, as a piece of art, and a form of activism.
There are serious themes going on here. He raps about corruption and for a second, you start to think somebody is reading out to you the Black Monday publication, to a hip-hop beat. He is talking about MPs and thieving public officials, about politics becoming a business and not as a service of the people.
After watching the older generation, the likes of Hon Miria Matembe and Bishop Zac Niringiye talking about corruption, and still not giving much of a damn, you think may be watching one of their own put it into song will move today’s young people into taking it seriously.
Zuukuka’s strong points are its ability to bring down serious social themes into mainstream art. As a song for listening pleasure though, it could use a little more coherence, and a catchier, more charming chorus line.
Leave a comment
LATEST ON SQOOP
I left Uganda because I was bored – GNL
The question that had not been answered for the past …Money has overshadowed talent – Toniks
Allan Ampaire alias Toniks, is an RnB artiste who has …How Namutebi almost lost Mrs World slot
By now you must have come across news that Sylvia …A year later, Pallaso returns to South Africa
Last year, artiste Pius Mayanja alias Pallaso scared not only …Jenkins Mukasa goes international
Jenkins Mukasa last released a song titled “Tugende” three years …Lady Gaga offers $500,000 for her dogs stolen at gunpoint
Lady Gaga’s two French bulldogs which were stolen at gunpoint …