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Nigeria's women's minister says she has filed a court order to stop the ceremony planned for next week. DJ Edu
Presenter of This Is Africa on BBC World Service
John Frog is one of South
Sudan’s most successful musicians.
He’s forging an international reputation and
has collaborated with artists from other African countries, including Uganda’s
Eddie Kenzo, and Bahati from Kenya.
His latest song My Bed features Iyanya
from Nigeria.
Frog is his real name. He was called Aguek,
which means frog in Dinka, a language native to South Sudan, because he was a breech baby, coming into the world
feet-first.
Given that his mother gave birth to him in a remote village with no
hospital or doctor in sight, he was lucky to survive, as was his mother.
John Frog was born during the civil war and his parents were
soldiers in the SPLA – the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. He himself was a
child soldier, joining the army at around eight years old.
“They didn’t give us a gun yet, until I was 14 , that’s
when I was given a gun," Frog said.
“Every day, every week, there is a fight, so we have to run
in the forest, in the water, so it was quite tough for me.”
He shares that he didn't go to school and picked up English "from the street".
Frog said he always loved music and even in the forest
he would listen to traditional music.
It was when he got the opportunity to
go to South Sudan's capital, Juba and he met other young Africans that he started
making music himself.
“We didn’t have enough producers in Juba. The producers who
are here are from Kenya and Uganda, so it was a bit hard to know the kind of
genre for South Sudanese music, so I decided to do Afrobeats," he said.
Frog said the musicians who make the most money in South
Sudan are the traditional ones.
“They praise people, they praise leaders, praise people who
have money, so it’s the quickest way to make money here," he said.
"But my aim is to reach
the wider audience. Either this year or next year I have to be among our
brothers who are on top.”
To hear John
Frog’s conversation with DJ Edu, listen to This is Africa
on BBC World Service radio and partner stations across Africa, and online here: bbcworldservice.com/thisisafrica.
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