{"id":10690,"date":"2016-09-20T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=10690"},"modified":"2017-04-27T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T10:58:32","slug":"fighting-corruption-through-music-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/fighting-corruption-through-music-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting corruption through music in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2016 Jamie Hitchen, policy researcher at ARI, returned from a visit to Freetown, Sierra Leone with the sounds of Emmerson Bockarie\u2019s latest album, \u201cSurvivor\u201d, fresh in his mind. One song in particular \u201cMunku Boss Pan Matches\u201d had captured the imagination of the Freetown residents he met in the city\u2019s bustling centre. With their help, Jamie wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/blog\/kids-in-a-sweet-shop-corruption-in-post-ebola-sierra-leone\/\">short article<\/a> about the messages in the fifteen minute track, which draws attention to the persistence of what Emmerson asserts is rampant political corruption in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent visit to London, Emmerson sat down with Jamie to talk about his country, its corruption problem and the role music can play in raising awareness and changing attitudes.<\/p>\n<p>On \u201cMunku Boss Pan Matches\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emmerson Bokarie about munku boss pan matches\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bpcBUL7hfLs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the problem of the \u201cbrown envelope\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emmerson Bockarie about Brown envelopes\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/33NQdXAXdU0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the power of music:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Music as a powerful political tool\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nNH5W9Fe0zc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the country that shaped him \u2013 Sierra Leone:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emerson Bokari about Sierra Leone\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hAwIZr0YqPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A message to fellow Sierra Leoneans:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A message to fellow Sierra Leoneans\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8p3YST-lf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Hitchen interviewed  Sierra-Leonean singer Emmerson Bockarieon on his country, its corruption problem and the role music can play in raising awareness and changing attitudes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2491,181,2303,2463,2492,518,2493,831,2490,216,36],"class_list":["post-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-brown-enveloppes","tag-corruption","tag-culture","tag-emmerson","tag-emmerson-bockarie","tag-governance","tag-hip-hop","tag-money","tag-music","tag-politics","tag-sierra-leone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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