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Music Alert!!! M.I, eLDee, Omawumi, Waje – “Violence Against Women”, The Free Album
Wednesday, December 05, 2012Omoba
“In Nigeria, majority
of cases that deal with violence Against Women are unreported so official
statistics are unavailable but some figures state that as high as 1 in every 5
women is in an abusive relationship.
The VAW music project
is an hbs intervention implemented by DLI Tuesday Nig. Ltd. The project was
launched to build women’s self confidence, discourage men from gender based
violence, and to make society take notice and speak up instead of look away.
This necessitated
recording a music album featuring some of Nigeria’s biggest musicians with a
violence-against-women theme.
The four artists
Omawumi, M.I, Waje, ElDee volunteered their services to such a worthy cause and
attended a workshop with hbs, survivors of violence, lawyers who deal with
gender based violence and NGO’s that help survivors. This helped the artist
understand the legal and emotional issues involved to enable them connect with
the theme of the album.
The tone of the album
is not pleading, but rather an empowering message for women, helping them to
realize that they have a right to demand love, value and respect from the
partners in both marital and non marital situations.
This album also seeks
to build women’s self esteem and inner strength and give a voice to their
feelings. It is to help women to identify clearly their expectations in
relationships,
To encourage women to
realize and insist that they will no longer accept violence in marital and non
marital relationships,
The album also
encourages women to come to that point when they realize that they deserve more
than they are getting and giving them the strength to take the necessary steps
towards recovery,
The other perspective
of the album also focuses on how beautiful and strong women are, and delivers a
positive message on how women should be treated.
The music album is
strictly not for profit and we encourage you to freely listen, download, and
distribute the songs to raise awareness on such a serious issue and take a
stand against Violence Against Women.
HBS would like to
thank the artists, their management team, and the crew at DLI Tuesday for their
time, effort and their willingness to volunteer their voices for such a worthy
cause.”
This is a positive
movement by these four great Nigerian Music acts – M.I, eLDee, Omawumi,
Waje - coming together to produce great music for a great cause.
Listen and tell me what you think!
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