Senior Pastor of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr. Paul Enenche, has criticised the Afrobeats genre, describing many of its songs as lacking meaningful lyrics and having a negative influence on young people.
Speaking during the church’s Mid-Year Worship Concert, Enenche urged gospel musicians to produce more youth-focused songs that promote positive values and serve as an alternative to what he described as the harmful messages in some secular music.
Announcing a Youth Fire Night scheduled for September 25, the cleric called on gospel artistes, including Prinx Emmanuel and other young music ministers, to make themselves available for the event.
“We will organise a Youth Fire Night on the 25th of September. Prinx Emmanuel and other young music ministers here, clean your calendar for that date,” he said.
Enenche stressed the importance of music with meaningful messages, saying it could help shape the lives of young people positively.
“It is better to have music that is saying something that youths are hearing than the garbage that worldly musicians sing. Most of those Afrobeats are just saying rubbish. Smoking Indian hemp while they are singing and influencing the youths in negative ways,” he stated.
He added that gospel music should offer positive guidance capable of helping young people make better life choices.
“By the time you have this positive replacement for such garbage, then your life cannot follow such a direction. I trust that in time to come, more of this energetic gospel music will be word-loaded to disciple you, show you the steps to take, how to stay away from negative friends, how to make the right decisions and so on,” Enenche said.
