Beautiful Nubia's polemics on child rights and the leadership challenge in Nigeria

This article examines Beautiful Nubia's polemics on leadership failure in Nigeria and the attendant neglect of the Nigerian child. The study provides a linguistic analysis of select texts of Beautiful Nubia's songs, discussing the poetics and rhetorical strategies that underline the artist's anguish over Nigeria's entrenched development challenges and his anticipation of a changed state. It reveals that the artist cuts the figure of an agent of social change, who, through his popular music, raises the national consciousness on inherent sociopolitical problems in Nigerian society.