Summary:

Queen Ifrica. “Daddy.” YouTube, Ikomusic88, 3 Dec. 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYrXb_KJmEU. Accessed 12 Oct. 2023.

Child abuse is something that is very common in the world today, research shows that many more persons are affected by child abuse than what the percentages say in the media, due to many persons not having the confidence to speak up. Queen Ifrica is an advocate on behalf of every voiceless person, through her song entitled “daddy”; she brought us on a journey of her encounter with abuse. Queen Ifrica went through four stages: in stage one she was sexually abused by her “father”, she used visual imagery with her choice of words to show us what she went through “… STOP IT DADDY, daddy stop it nuh” we can see that she knew that something was wrong, and she gained the courage to say, “daddy don’t touch me there.” Queen Ifrica lived her life being traumatized and powerless knowing that something is wrong but unable to fix the problem. In stage two she started to hate herself as there was no one there to console her so she tried self-therapy and wore a facade. In stage three she accepted that she could not change anything because she was a child, but she had courage to encourage mothers to be a little more protective with their daughters notwithstanding the person is one of high esteem “pay attention even if the man a pastor.” In stage four she wanted pay back for what was done to her but in her heart she wanted change, so she decided to encourage all victims of child abuse that are in a similar position to be strong and confident because child abuse does not determine your future or the person you become.