Burna Boy: “A revolution is needed. I want to inspire it”
(WorldNews Music)

Burna Boy was not a well-behaved student. Back then – before the Brit and Grammy nominations, the sold-out arena shows all around the world and the 600million streams of his irresistible music – he was Damini Ogulu, a recalcitrant schoolboy in southern Nigeria, skipping classes and getting into trouble. Looking back now, sat by the pool outside his luxurious home in Lagos, it`s clear to the 29-year-old where the roots of his childhood frustration lay. “The schools in Nigeria would rather teach you another man`s history than your own,” he says. “We were angry, and that was the foundation for our rebellion. Our subconscious, our inner man, was telling us: ‘Bro, you`re being brainwashed`.” He...