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That's obvious from the community's response to a radio program that lets residents ask questions about Ebola, health promoter Seyoe says.
"They are eager to turn on the radio to listen to the messages from us," he says.
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If you're in a taxi or walking past an open-air market in Monrovia, the radio is blaring. And right now, Ebola is the number one topic on the air waves, says NPR's Jason Beaubien, who's in Liberia's capital this week, covering the outbreak there. "It's become all Ebola, all the time," he says. "It really is dominating the airwaves."
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The challenge of getting out a public health message about Ebola is enormous. Guinea and Liberia have adult literacy rates of below 40 percent and music, theater and radio are routinely used to spread public health messages.
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"Got my gloves on my hands but tonight is for a different reason / I know the storm's pouring down outside but it's a different season / How many lives must we lose before we realize, start believing... / I might be calm outside but down inside I'm weeping / Ebola is real... "
It is one of the most played Ebola songs on the airwaves, written and performed by Tan Tan B and Quincy B. Titled, 'State of Emergency', the chorus is pouring on every child's lip around Monrovia today.
Music like State of Emergency can be a very powerful tool in delivering a health message because it is catchy, emotional and entertaining.
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Before State of Emergency, there was “Ebola’s in Town,” a now popular dance hit that reminds its listeners to avoid touching anyone who’s sick. While the song reinforces some myths about how Ebola is transmitted, Liberians say it made people take their risk of contracting the disease more seriously.
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A song about Ebola
Getting the message out
Oct 17th 2014, 18:34 by The Economist
UNICEF and Liberia's government have commissioned the track "Ebola is Real" to tell citizens how to protect themselves.
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Liberia's hottest hip-hop station has all the latest Ebola music and news
Liberia’s airwaves are filled with information about the Ebola crisis, but some of the most thorough news has come from an unlikely source — hip-hop radio. One of Monrovia’s best-loved stations, Hott FM, has taken on a mission to spread awareness of the disease.
Liberia is a young country — almost half of its population is under 18 — so it seems like a stroke of genius to broadcast Ebola news on pop radio. “Wherever you see the Hott FM brand, you know it’s the young and the hip people,” DJ Blue says. “We use that influence to go out there and get the message across.
“Even with all the things about Ebola going around, people still want to relax. People still want to listen to music,” he says. “Even during the … so-called ‘partying time’ on the station, we still get that message across. All our programs right now have some message of this awareness embedded into [them.]”
Spreading information is central to stopping Ebola, DJ Blue says. Despite the prevalence of the disease, many in Liberia have fallen victim to widespread myths and misconceptions about Ebola.
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Something happen
Something in town
Oh yeah the news
I said something in town
Ebola
Ebola in town
Don’t touch your friend!
No touching
No eating something
It’s dangerous!
Ebola
Ebola in town
Don’t touch your friend!
No kissing!
No eating something
It’s dangerous!
I woke up in the morning
I started hearing people dem yelling
“Da what thing happen? What thing happen? Ma pekin what thing?”
Eh man!
They sit down grab me
They say something in town
Frisky!
That thing that in town it quick to kill
That me scary-o
E-B-O-L-A
Ebola. Ebola in town.
I started yelling
I started running
What place I will go?
I go to Guinea
I went everywhere
Ebola. Ebola there.
I’m not going anywhere.
I’m right here.
I’m not going nowhere.
I’m right here.
I know the medicine.
That distant hugging
I said distant shaking
Distant kissing
Don’t touch me!
Something in town-oh
Something in town-eh
Ebola. Ebola in town.
It’s dangerous-o.
Ebola is very wicked.
It can kill you quick quick
Be careful how you shaking hands-o
Be careful who you touch
Ebola is more than HIV/AIDS
It can kill you quick quick
It can kill you fast fast
Ebola.
Don’t touch your friend.
Ebola!
I say it will kill you-o.
My pa Jehovah
Please save us from Ebola
Nowhere to go
Nowhere to hide
And I ain’t come in town
My people, ya’ll please take time
Take time before you get that disease
Don’t overlook it
That thing it quick to kill
Don’t take it for joke
My people, I saw it before
Be on the safe side, you hear me?
Ebola.
If you like the monkey
Don’t eat the meat
If you like the baboon
I said don’t eat the meat
If you like the bat-o
Don’t eat the meat
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Liberian immigrants hope their song will offer support to those dealing with Ebola back home
For the last couple of weekends, James has brought in some friends to help develop his concept for a song and lay down the tracks.
"The only thing we can do to prevent and stop this deadly virus from spreading around ... is create awareness," he says.
“We are too beautiful, too precious to be dying like this,” says Sametta Tupee Morris, a backup singer and producer. “The more we sing [the more powerful] we become." Morris says the process of creating this song has been cathartic for her.