Evi-Edna Ogholi has to be one of the most unappreciated and undecorated Nigerian legends.Before I blame Nigeria, let me ask Deltans:

Evi-Edna Ogholi has to be one of the most unappreciated and undecorated Nigerian legends.
Before I blame Nigeria, let me ask Deltans:

Evi-Edna Ogholi has to be one of the most unappreciated and undecorated Nigerian legends.
Before I blame Nigeria, let me ask Deltans:

Do you guys ever recognise the fact that Evi-Edna is your biggest entertainment export?
Her whole life, she has sung in your language, of which she earned the Queen of Reggae title.
She is acclaimed as Nigeria’s first female reggae artiste.

Deltans, her passion for your state’s musical heritage put your music on the map before social media.
All she did was strum her guitar and sang proudly in her Isoko dialect, connecting listeners to her cultural heritage.

Actually what made me write this post was when I saw Delta folks on Twitter going crazy over Davido’s promised visit, and waiting for him with starch and banga soup in hand.

And that’s cool.

However, it crossed my mind that the likes of Evi-Edna may spend their lives gifting us with timeless songs like Obaro, Birthday, Ririovara, Okeoghene, Message To The Youth, One Kilometre, Oghene Me, and several others – and never receive a heroic welcome on their own soil.

She may never be enlisted as one of the performers for any state event, yet she is the most iconic global ambassador for Delta State through music.
And still relevant if you ask me!
Even after she fled to Paris with her kids in the late 90s due to alleged domestic abuse, her music never left.

I’ve never seen anyone, not even Deltans, honour this woman as much as she deserves or make efforts to seek her out.

It’s quite disappointing that artistes of her calibre may go through life without ever getting anything more than casual throwback posts by Nigerian social media users.
While having songs like ‘Birthday’ that helps to set the mood at birthday parties up to now.

There’s a certain aura her music carries that reminds one of the times when life was simple.

You’d think she’s so old because a lot of us grew up on her music, but she’s just 58.

I thought this unsung heroine deserves better from her people.