内容摘要：“It gave me a sense of confidence and it gave me confidence to move forward in life instead of playing it safe,” he said.

“It gave me a sense of confidence and it gave me confidence to move forward in life instead of playing it safe,” he said.

“Everyone is suffering,” Nigerian ram seller Jaji Kaligini said as he lamented thefueled by President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies, such as a sudden

. “We don’t know what to do.”have worsened the living conditions, the military government banned ram exports this year to stabilize local supply. While that has helped availability, it has affected tightened supplies in neighboring Nigeria and Benin.“There’s enough livestock (in Niger),” said Hasoumi Daouda, who was at a local market to buy ram. “But it’s the financial crisis that makes them too expensive to buy.”

The challenge of hardship is also raising the question of how obligatory the ram sacrifice is for Muslims. The tradition is not mandatory for those who “genuinely cannot afford it,” Bukola Hameed, a Nigerian Islamic scholar, said.However, those who can afford it also have “a duty to share their meat with poorer neighbors,” another Islamic scholar, Mikail Adekunle, added.

Adebayo reported from Abuja, Nigeria

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This interview has been edited for length and clarity.ERIVO: This album is a collection of stories and songs that are both personal for things that are happening now, things that have happened in the past, and I think some of which I have had to forgive people for. And honestly, some of which I’ve had to forgive myself for. And I loved the idea of calling it this title, because it’s a simple concept, but not an easy one. And not one that we as humans are very good at, often.

A part of me was feeling, like, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people had to keep repeating the words, ‘I forgive you?’” So even if you’re finding it difficult to say this album will give you the permission to actually say the words, even if you’re not quite ready.ERIVO: The concept of being a work in progress — who still gets scared of things, who still has to deal with things — that won’t ever necessarily stop. It might get quiet, but that feeling doesn’t necessarily always go away. I just wanted to be honest, and I think that “Replay” was probably the first song that I put out was because I felt like it was sort of a reintroduction to the inner part of me that most people might not really know.