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IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT MUSIC!
By Albert O.A.U.
Written December 24, 2025,
Think about it. No songs on the radio during a long drive. No gentle lullabies to calm a crying baby. No national anthem at a football game. No choir in church. No drums at a festival. Just silence, heavy, empty, and strange.
Music is the invisible thread that holds many moments together. Imagine watching a movie like The Lion King or Black Panther with no soundtrack. The scenes would feel flat, almost lifeless. Even horror movies rely on music, the tense strings, and the sudden beats to make your heart race. Without those sounds, the fear disappears.
Think about daily life. In the gym, people push harder because of upbeat songs. Without music, workouts would feel dull. In restaurants, soft background music helps people relax and enjoy their meals. Without it, every clatter of plates would feel loud and awkward.
Even nature has its own music. Birds sing at dawn. Waves crash in rhythm. Rain taps on rooftops like a soft drum. These sounds shape our emotions without us even noticing.
Music also brings people together. At weddings, the first dance would feel empty without a song. At birthday parties, how would we sing “Happy Birthday”? At cultural festivals, like Igbo Egwu Amala, Jamaican reggae nights, or American jazz concerts, the energy comes from the rhythm that moves everyone at once.
Without music, celebrations would lose their spark, movies would lose their magic, and life would lose one of its greatest comforts.
So yes, imagine a world without music…
It wouldn’t just be quiet.
It would be chaotic, colorless, and incomplete.
Music is not just sound.
It is memory, emotion, culture, and connection.
And that is why the world needs music every single day.
INTRODUCING AFRI SCORE, A WEB-BASED LEARNING SYSTEM FOR SCORING AFRICAN MUSIC NUANCES: MUSICAL-ENGINEERING APPROACH TO CULTURALLY INFORMED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
This article introduces AfriScore, a web-based learning system that fills a critical gap in music education technology by authentically representing African musical nuances and features like ululation, call-and-response, and polyrhythmic layering that are largely absent from mainstream, Western-centric software. Drawing on a unique “musical-engineering” framework, the author blends musicology, software engineering, and Indigenous epistemology to create a platform where African musical logic shapes both notation and pedagogy.
Through iterative design and empirical testing with educators, students, and traditional performers, AfriScore demonstrates that African compositional idioms can be effectively encoded, taught, and preserved in digital form. The system’s architecture, grounded in user-centered and semiotic theories, not only enhances usability and cultural resonance but also serves as a model for decolonizing educational technology. By restoring epistemic agency to African learners and educators, this work advances both scholarship and practice, offering a replicable blueprint for culturally responsive software in global music education.
This article reveals how envy-driven antagonism, encompassing silent sabotage, citation erasure, gatekeeping, and exclusion, has evolved into a structural issue, rather than merely personal rivalry.
Drawing on narratives and a nationwide survey of 98 scholars, the study reveals a steady rise in academic hostility from 2019 to 2025, with gatekeeping and intellectual sabotage topping the list. Many respondents also report poor mental‑health support and declining collegial trust.
The article argues that this “cankerwormic decline” is eroding scholarly integrity from within, weakening collaboration, innovation, and ethical leadership.
MAIN MESSAGE:
If Nigerian academia is to thrive, it must confront Bad‑Belleism head‑on through ethical reforms, decolonial pedagogy, and a culture that values integrity over envy.
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IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT MUSIC!
By Albert O.A.U.
Written December 24, 2025,
Think about it. No songs on the radio during a long drive. No gentle lullabies to calm a crying baby. No national anthem at a football game. No choir in church. No drums at a festival. Just silence, heavy, empty, and strange.
Music is the invisible thread that holds many moments together. Imagine watching a movie like The Lion King or Black Panther with no soundtrack. The scenes would feel flat, almost lifeless. Even horror movies rely on music, the tense strings, and the sudden beats to make your heart race. Without those sounds, the fear disappears.
Think about daily life. In the gym, people push harder because of upbeat songs. Without music, workouts would feel dull. In restaurants, soft background music helps people relax and enjoy their meals. Without it, every clatter of plates would feel loud and awkward.
Even nature has its own music. Birds sing at dawn. Waves crash in rhythm. Rain taps on rooftops like a soft drum. These sounds shape our emotions without us even noticing.
Music also brings people together. At weddings, the first dance would feel empty without a song. At birthday parties, how would we sing “Happy Birthday”? At cultural festivals, like Igbo Egwu Amala, Jamaican reggae nights, or American jazz concerts, the energy comes from the rhythm that moves everyone at once.
Without music, celebrations would lose their spark, movies would lose their magic, and life would lose one of its greatest comforts.
So yes, imagine a world without music…
It wouldn’t just be quiet.
It would be chaotic, colorless, and incomplete.
Music is not just sound.
It is memory, emotion, culture, and connection.
And that is why the world needs music every single day.
INTRODUCING AFRI SCORE, A WEB-BASED LEARNING SYSTEM FOR SCORING AFRICAN MUSIC NUANCES: MUSICAL-ENGINEERING APPROACH TO CULTURALLY INFORMED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.51244/IJRSI.2025.1213CS0013
This article introduces AfriScore, a web-based learning system that fills a critical gap in music education technology by authentically representing African musical nuances and features like ululation, call-and-response, and polyrhythmic layering that are largely absent from mainstream, Western-centric software. Drawing on a unique “musical-engineering” framework, the author blends musicology, software engineering, and Indigenous epistemology to create a platform where African musical logic shapes both notation and pedagogy.
Through iterative design and empirical testing with educators, students, and traditional performers, AfriScore demonstrates that African compositional idioms can be effectively encoded, taught, and preserved in digital form. The system’s architecture, grounded in user-centered and semiotic theories, not only enhances usability and cultural resonance but also serves as a model for decolonizing educational technology. By restoring epistemic agency to African learners and educators, this work advances both scholarship and practice, offering a replicable blueprint for culturally responsive software in global music education.
BAD‑BELLEISM IS QUIETLY DAMAGING NIGERIAN ACADEMIA.
Article URL: https://doi.org/10.52589/BJELDP-QOG905BK,
DOI: 10.52589/BJELDP-QOG905BK
This article reveals how envy-driven antagonism, encompassing silent sabotage, citation erasure, gatekeeping, and exclusion, has evolved into a structural issue, rather than merely personal rivalry.
Drawing on narratives and a nationwide survey of 98 scholars, the study reveals a steady rise in academic hostility from 2019 to 2025, with gatekeeping and intellectual sabotage topping the list. Many respondents also report poor mental‑health support and declining collegial trust.
The article argues that this “cankerwormic decline” is eroding scholarly integrity from within, weakening collaboration, innovation, and ethical leadership.
MAIN MESSAGE:
If Nigerian academia is to thrive, it must confront Bad‑Belleism head‑on through ethical reforms, decolonial pedagogy, and a culture that values integrity over envy.