Audio:- Bella Alubo – Abo Le (How Are You?)

Bella Alubo was born Oine Mabel Alubo in Jos, North-Central Nigeria, the youngest of five children to academic parents: a widely travelled, American-educated sociology professor and a mother who founded a community-focused private school.
Her upbringing in Jos—a town that has produced notable Nigerian rappers, footballers and actors—carried a quiet distinctiveness. With no malls or cinemas, boredom gave way to imagination; nature became both playground and catalyst for creativity.

She spent much of her childhood daydreaming—writing fantastical stories inspired by Barbie’s Dreamhouse from as early as six and later filling notebooks with lyrics from artists like Westlife, Spice Girls, Brenda Fassie and Plantashun Boiz. With her siblings away at boarding school, she turned to poetry to process the solitude of a near-homeschool-style education, often with fewer than ten classmates.

That isolation shaped her. By university, she arrived with a clear sense of self, began recording music with new friends, and quickly became known in her city. Jos—once called the “Home of Peace and Tourism”—was prized in colonial times for its mild climate and multicultural communities, from American and British to Lebanese and French. But since 2003, recurring attacks by groups such as Boko Haram have reshaped its story. In Abole, Bella offers a more intimate lens: the students of her mother’s school, the texture of everyday
life, and a quiet question in her native language— “How are you?” It is her way of centring people over headlines.

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