Nigeria, Jan. 25 -- In perhaps his most famous song after dying in a car crash in 1971, Cardinal Rex Lawson, Kalabari highlife soulful singer of the 1960s Nigeria, would seem to be passing a deeply emotive message to both the Adeleke and Labinjoh families. In a deeply philosophical song sung in Kalabari, a riverine tribe of Rivers State, Rex used the track, So Ala Temen, to preach equality of creation, irrespective of class or wealth. God made the rich - So ala temen; both wealth - ala wolo ma - and poverty/lowliness - igoin derima - constitute a single tranche of God's creation, he sang. God made the rich/Ori piki igoin temen and also created the lowly, Ala wolo ma, igoin derima, he sang in his inimitable melodious rhythm. Rex then advis...
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