VIDEO: Burna Boy Addresses Pollution, Poverty, Floods In ‘Whiskey’ Documentary

Afrofusion artiste Burna Boy has released a mini-documentary for his song ‘Whiskey’, which is off his recent album ‘Love, Damini’.

He returned to his hometown, Port Harcourt, for the 16-minute-long video depicting the pollution, poverty and the effect of the recent floods that plagued the city.

The documentary also highlights the environmental degradation of the Niger Delta and the soot problem confronting the region due to oil exploration.

The documentary was made in partnership with Nigerian charity, Reach Every Available Communal Household (R.E.A.C.H), and all profits made from the documentary will be used to help the community of Port Harcourt with clean water, food, medication and more.

'Whiskey' is produced by P2J, and the video directed by Asurf Oluseyi with executive producers, Damini and Ronami Ogulu.

Discussing the film, Burna Boy reveals that constructing it was an emotional experience.

“Everything was a lot worse than the way I left it.

"The air was fully polluted, everything would be black when you wake up, even the cars.

"It’s really what you see in the documentary. This is real life, everyday life for my people.

“I feel like we’ll make songs about everything else, so why not make songs about what’s really going on and what’s really affecting the people in real-time?

"That’s what the song ‘Whiskey’ is. I hope it does its job and creates the necessary awareness and some type of change comes from this. If you don’t know, now you know.”

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