jidenna the chief album cover original picture

Of course, this is a common sentiment among sons and daughters of African immigrants, forming one of the core beliefs of many artistes on the continent here. Named from the interstate highway that runs to the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport linking America with much of Africa, 85 to Africa is quite an essential framework for an album that should preach the Diasporic philosophy of consolidating the Black community. It is very well the idea the album hopes to inspire - connecting to your roots. How do you feel waking up to being booted out of a place you’ve managed to call home by gun-toting police officers - as consequence of your landlord’s delinquency? This, perhaps, explains the fuel that drives Jidenna in 85 to Africa. The long hiatus has indeed remodelled the artiste. Although his lyrics haven’t changed much, the artiste, apparently, has pared down on his formality so that we see a rather brawny, hair-braided Jidenna in 2019, styled in a white Polo t-shirt tucked into bespoke high-waited trousers - as the album artwork reveals. Long after the launch of The Chief, his debut album, Jidenna returns with renewed vitality to propagate an Afrocentric philosophy.

You always loved that song and the mesh of feelings it left you in. Of course you remember Jidenna? The three-piece-suit-wearing gentleman who grieved his lover’s departure in that velvety ballad of Bambi. I can’t help stating here that his genius, his c reativity, sampled in his latest album, 85 to Africa, rekindles pride in the potentials and talent of our Diasporian community. Dear Margaret, Woke up this morn in awe of Jidenna.

Jidenna the chief album cover original picture