Singer Tyla: Photo GuardianÂ
By Toyin WilliamsÂ
Following a heavy boycott campaign by Nigerians over the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other Africans living in South Africa. Grammy-winning singer Tyla has cancelled her concert scheduled for Lagos on December 22.
A massive social media campaign against the concert of the South African born musician was all over social media with social media activist, Martin Vincent Otse, popularly called, VeryDarkMan, and other Nigerians calling for the boycott.
On account of this development, Tyla was forced to remove Lagos from the list of cities she is scheduled to visit following the release of her new album World tour.
VeryDarkMan, had in a video post, warned the singer and the promoters of her concert against bringing the singer to Lagos amidst the ongoing xenophobic attacks that has led to the death of many Nigerians living South Africa
He also criticised Tyla for her silence in the face of the deadly attacks.
In his video post, VDM stated: “There will be no Tyla concert in Nigeria. It is not happening. This is a warning to the organizers and the show promoters bringing Tyla to Nigeria. That show is not happening.
“Not when Chidinma Adetshina is battling deportation in South African court. Now you want to bring in Tyla and sell tickets so that Tyla will make money off Nigerians. The same Nigerians that South Africans hate so much.
“This is a warning to you, if you go ahead with that show, we will come to the venue and we will bring the show down.”
Other notable Nigerians have added their voices to that of Verydarkman to call for a total boycott of the concert to retaliate the attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.
