Between Cardi B and Nigerian pop stars
Posted by Usman Issa Olabanji | 29 December 2019 | 2,132 times
•Cardi B
Grammy award-winning
rapper, Cardi B, who recently performed in Nigeria, has warmed the hearts of
many Nigerians for being so real and speaking positively about Nigeria.
Initially, I have never
for once been mesmerised with the gists about her visitation and of course, I
know the kind of orientation we have as Nigerians. We easily give attention to
things all in the name of following trends.
For the past four days,
the headlines have been revolving around Sowore, Cardi B, Orji Kalu and lots
more. Infact, President Buhari should be more grateful to the likes of Sowore
and others for diverting Nigerians’ attention and relieving the pressure on
him.
For the fact that I have
tried to manipulate my interest not to follow trends about Cardi B’s travelogue
to our dramatic Nation, the headline that proclaimed her visitation to Lekki
motherless home got my rapt attention.
Apart from adopting
Nigerian names, apart from showing interest to meet and mingle with people at
the grassroots, Cardi B went to a Lagos supermarket, waited on the queue and
bought provision worth millions of Naira which she later donated to an
orphanage in Lekki.
Having read about this
generous gesture, crop of questions barged into my inner mind as regards to
Nigerian celeberities. One of the questions was about asking myself the last
time any of our celebrities pays a generous visit to the orphanage.
If a foreigner that has
not spent more than four days can go to this level and contribute positively to
the lives of people at the grassroots, I wonder where our celebrities put their
sense of reasoning.
Few days ago, I came
across myriad headlines on how one of the most hyped celebrities embarrassed a
fan who asked for money to pay his school fees on social media. This same
artist released a video to stigmatize one of the Big Brother Naija housemates
for having a body odour. Instead of this artist to encourage the disqualified
house mate and the student that honourably asked for help, he got the situation
exacerbated by hauling vituperations and releasing derogatory video.
What a pity! Another
artist in the same caucus has been a crusader of masturbation, weed and
self-acclaimed leader/role model to mentally derailed people. Funny enough,
many, out of the followers of these celebrities would never see anything wrong
in the level of moral depravities established by their hyped artists.
They would rather blame
government for every woes betiding the nation. Even if government is doing
little or no efforts to elevate the poor masses from abject penury, does that
call for the attention of this madness under the guise of disco?
Does that mean, Nigerian
celebrities should not be giving back to the society positively and morally?
Now, I have fathomed that, something has come over us as a Nation and it goes
beyond poor governance, it includes poor socialisation, poor orientation and
poor instrumental ideology.
It is marvelous that in
less than four days, Cardi B has impacted positively into the lives of many
motherless children. For how long will it take our pop stars to achieve this
feat? Jokes apart, it would take us time to get it right; not even when
Nigerians begin to see themselves as Malians...Nonsense!
•Usman Issa, an opinion
writer, graduated from the Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara State. He can be
reached via Usmanissa247@gmail.com ;Whatsap:
08169197486
Twitter: @BusyBraincom1
Source: News Express
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