Songbird Bukola Eremide popularly known as Asa recently had an interview with RFI, a French current affairs radio station, where she talked about making her latest, third album, Bed of Stone, the joys of learning to ride a motorbike and why she’s feels so close to Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls.

Asa also why Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls are a global problem that must be addressed.

On what inspires her latest album, Bed of stone and the hit track ‘Dead Again’, she said  “I’m in my best when I am sad. I just decided that I am no longer going to be that girl who keeps quiet every day,so I went to the studio that day in anger. I had never been that angry or composed a song in such anger. Usually, I get the best result when I am sad but this one came so fast and thankfully I was just arriving at the studio when the song came.”

On growing up and use of Yoruba language, she said “I suffered a lot as a child because I didn’t know Yoruba well, whenever I went to the market, it was tough communicating with the traders so I had to go and live with my grandma to learn Yoruba….Fans do say my Yoruba is not as straight as it should be but it’s all good.”

On the missing Chibok girls, she said “When the incident happened, I imagined myself back in school, growing up and going to fetch water at the stream and not being protected…it is sad and shocking…it could have happened to anybody and it is something in my memory to write a song about it in the future”

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