{"id":18821,"date":"2018-12-07T18:49:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=18821"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:01:04","slug":"new-video-ekiti-sound-area-10k-boys-riddim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/new-video-ekiti-sound-area-10k-boys-riddim\/","title":{"rendered":"New video: Ekiti Sound &#8211; Area 10K Boys Riddim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content pam-featured-content\"  width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9NRsYy7dMIY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Date: December 5th, 2018<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Director\/Editor: Sam Campbell<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Shot on location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Leke shares a new music video for his Ekiti Sound project.\u00a0 The visuals were shot during the Spring 2012 fuel strikes that were the catalyst for the Occupy Nigeria Movement in the wake of the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Area boys (also known as Agberos) are loosely organized gangs of street children and teenagers, composed mostly of males, who roam the streets of Lagos, Lagos State in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The beauty of our protest was that even in the midst of 10,000 area boys, there was solidarity in the people crying out against the injustice of the new pricing schemes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these impromptu non-stop &#8220;rave demonstrations&#8221;, there were speeches, live performances, peaceful demonstrations and also a massive sense of the youth not being afraid to make themselves heard.<\/p>\n<p>Ekiti Sound debut album will be out this spring 2019 via Crammed Discs.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/bonaventure-interview\/\">Bonaventure\u2019s DIY electronic music blending against all forms of oppression<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18742\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ekiti-Sound-FB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1227\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ekiti-Sound-FB.jpg 1227w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ekiti-Sound-FB-759x397.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ekiti-Sound-FB-1010x528.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ekiti-Sound-FB-661x345.jpg 661w, 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