Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Sonny Okosun (1 January 1947 – 24 May 2008) was a Nigerian musician, who was known as the leader of the Ozzidi band. He named his band Ozzidi after a renowned Ijaw river god, but to Okosun the meaning was “there is a message”. His surname is sometimes spelled Okosuns and his first name Sunny. He was one of the leading Nigerian musicians from the late 1970s to mid-1980s. Okosun’s brand of African pop music, Ozzidi, is a synthesis of Afro-beat, reggae and funk music. From 1977, he became known for protest songs about Pan-Africanism, freedom and a few other social and political issues affecting Africans. As a young boy, Okosun spent his early childhood with his grandmother at Ibore, near Irrua in Edo State. Thereafter, he moved to Enugu to live with his parents, where his father worked with the Nigerian Railway Corporation. Okosun attended various training schools starting with St Brigid’s School, Asata, Enugu before enrolling at a government trade centre in Enugu. He left the training