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' Lord Bless Africa ') is a Christian hymn composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a Xhosa clergyman at a Methodist mission school near Johannesburg. The song became a pan-African liberation song and versions of it were later adopted as the national anthems of five countries in Africa including Zambia , Tanzania , Namibia and Zimbabwe after ...
Arise, O Compatriots is a Nigerian patriotic song that was used as the national anthem of Nigeria from 1 October 1978 until 2024, when Nigeria, We Hail Thee was reinstated. On 29 May 2024, "Arise, O Compatriots" was officially relinquished followed by the readoption of the first national anthem, "Nigeria, We Hail Thee" used from 1960 until 1978.
Gospel songs are a kind of motivational Christian music that has become a major part of Nigerian music.In the 1960s the Evangelical Church of West Africa Choir was popular, and in the early 1970s Bola Aare, Ebenezer Obey and later, Panam Percy Paul, Onyeka Onwenu, Tope Alabi, and Kefee were notable.
In an interview with Match of the Day on BBC One, Declan Rice said: “Odumodu [Odumodublvck] – he brought out a song; it’s called ‘Declan Rice.’ “It dropped, and I was just like, yeah mad. I think it was the fastest-streaming song in Nigerian history. Number 1. It now like 15 million streams. “We’ve seen all these people singing ...
There are over 520 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The official language is English, [4] [5] which got introduced as the language of Colonial Nigeria.The English-based creole Nigerian Pidgin – first used by the British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century [6] – is the most common lingua franca now, spoken by over 60 million people.
The Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim, also known as the esocs, is a church denomination in Nigeria that was founded by Moses Orimolade Tunolase in 1925. . Orimolade received considerable media attention when he allegedly healed a girl, Christina Abiodun Akinsowon, from a long-term trance in which she could neither speak
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
"Do Lord Remember Me" (also known as "Do Lord" or "Oh Do Lord, Oh Do Lord"), Roud 11971, is a 19th-century African-American Spiritual. The origin of the song is lost. The origin of the song is lost. [ 1 ]