Ivorian musicians have collaborated to release a song saying they are “not afraid” after Islamist militants killed 19 people on a beach.<\/p>\n
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it was behind the attack earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The song “Meme Pas Peur”, meaning not a bit afraid, was filmed on Grand Bassam beach, where the gunmen opened fire.<\/p>\n
The lyrics, sung in French, include the lines “you kill innocents for lost causes” and “you won’t go to paradise”.<\/p>\n
More about this and other African news stories<\/p>\n
France’s ex-colonies under threat<\/strong><\/p>\n How I survived the Grand Bassam beach attack<\/p>\n The defiant lyrics insist “in Ivory Coast, we’re on our feet”.<\/p>\n Some lyrics are directed at the militants including: “What are you doing on the beaches? Because of 70 virgins, you kill innocent people.<\/p>\n “In the name of God, you there, you won’t go to paradise”.<\/p>\n And some are critical of the AQIM’s interpretation of Islam, arguing “Islam is a religion that promotes love, you kill innocents for lost causes”.<\/p>\n The video was filmed on the same beach where gunmen killed 19 people<\/p>\n The song’s producer Chico Lacoste told the BBC that he decided to make a song to “tell the whole world that: ‘Yes it’s true that Ivory Coast has been hit but we have not fallen down'”.<\/p>\n The BBC’s Tamasin Ford in Abidjan says music is a typical reaction to a crisis in Ivory Coast and was used to ask for their war to stop and push for reconciliation.<\/p>\n A song has even been released in reaction to the bird flu epidemic, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ivorian musicians have collaborated to release a song saying they are “not afraid” after Islamist militants killed 19 people on a beach. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it was behind the attack earlier this month. The song “Meme Pas Peur”, meaning not a bit afraid, was filmed on Grand Bassam beach, where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":201641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}