Singer Omowumi Gives Lot Of Passion To Agriculture

Singer Omowumi grew up to become of the respected ladies of songs in Nigeria. Now that she has stamped her feet in the music
industry, Omawumi has decided to diversify.
The young lady has found a new love in
agriculture.

But then, she insists she was actually born into
a home of farmers claiming her father had a
farm in their home town in Warri.

Currently working on ONE.org's theme song
project 'Cocoa na Chocolate', the singer said
she joined the campaign for agriculture to be
revived in Africa because it used to be the
continent's source of income before the
discovery of oil.

"I have always been into agriculture; my father
has a 25-hectare land in Ubeji, in the outskirts
of Warri. While I grew up, I used to go to the
farm and we used to process cassava. I can
make garri; I mean uprooting the cassava, the
whole process of extraction and frying it. I can do it effortlessly same thing with fufu and
tapioca. I am actively involved in agriculture
because I grew in the farm.

"Everything we use is actually from agriculture
especially most of the make-up women use. I
am a part of the project because I believe we
need to be actively involved in agriculture,
especially the youths. They see agriculture as
something that is 'uncool' meanwhile it could create employment for a lot of them. I wonder
why someone would rather go to a
supermarket to buy chicken at a price you
could use to buy some chicks, rare them and
after a while, you have lots of chicken for your
consumption," she said.

Speaking on her new album that is still in the
pipeline, she said it would be a 10-track album
and would be unique and different because it
would be more of acoustics.

"I am working on my next album which would
be a live album. I have one song with Phyno
and it is wonderful. I want to produce a 10
tracks album that even when you listen to in the
next 10 years you would love it. I would use
live acoustics so you can get a feel of the real music as opposed to using technology all the
way. I did not start performing with live band
but music is something people want to enjoy
raw, if someone is playing a guitar for
example, people want to hear and have a feel
of the guitar. It makes music more enjoyable as opposed to asking a disc jockey to play your
songs while you mime to it. However, I do not
blame anybody who does not subscribe to
playing with live band, different strokes for
different folks," Omawumi said.