Tyla Lagos concert cancelled: South Africa anti-immigration protest cause petition, force Grammy award winner to cancel Lagos tour

South African pop star, Tyla comot di Nigerian concert date from di list of places wey she dey go perform afta backlash ova South Africa anti-immigration movement.

Tyla bin drop di dates for her A*Pop album world tour on Monday as part of di promotion for di album, A*Pop wey drop on 24 July and as part of am include three dates for Africa.

She bin dey plan to perform for Lagos, Nigeria for 22 December, wey bi di middle of di Detty December period but bin neva confam any venue for di proposed concert date.

Dis for be di first headline concert wey Tyla dey run for di kontri even though she bin visit during Detty December for 2024 dey chill wit Rema, Ayra Starr and Tems.

Tyla bin come Lagos for 2024, and she even climb stage for impromptu performance but afta dat performance she bin promise say she go land di kontri to do her own headline show.

Howeva she neva update di change for her social media post on her tour dates.

Plenti voices online don call out di move as tone deaf wey include media personality, Do2dtun wey call out in advance any pesin wey go for Tyla show.

E write for X (formerly Twitter) say “Na di audacity for me, People dey allowed to live freely but if you no dey accountable and you no fit read di room, you sef join inside di problem”.

E no be di only one wey do call to make dem boycott dis concert.

E tok say, “Tyla dey do show for December for Nigeria and dat show must not happun… no be afta di xenophobic attacks wey we see for South African and how immigrants nad especially Nigerian migrants bin dey treated. We no hia pim from Tyla, not even performative activism.”

Many oda pipo dey call out di fact say Ayra Starr bin suppose get show for South Africa earlier dis year but dem no give am visa to torchlight di need for di Nigerian goment to do-me-I-do-you and no give visa back to Tyla to even come Nigeria.

Meanwhile former Nigerian Presidential Candidate, Omoyele Sowore, support Tyla decision to tour for Nigeria say make pipo no use Tyla to pay for di crimes of xenophobia.

E tok say, “make Nigerians direct dia anger give dia real enemies like dia criminal leaders like Tinubu wit di APC party wey don spoil our kontri sotay our pipo don reduce to second class citizens across Africa and di rest of di world plus di irresponsivle South African leaders like Cyril Ramaphosa wey im failure bin create di conditions for xenophobic kasala”.

E add say, “Tyla Lagos Concert must go on”.

But di mata even big pass just Tyla tour date, for June, di South African Minister of Justice bin tell tori pipo about wetin artistes dey tell am say dem dey cancel di concerts of South African artistes all ova di continet sake of di gbege wey dey happun for di kontri.

Even wit dis k-leg wey her concert dey get or di kurukere relationship between Nigeria and South Africa, Tyla don dey run tinz wit Nigerian artists along di span of her career.

Dis na starting for 2023, wen Ayra Starr bin feature for her single, Girl Next Door bifor she come join DJ SPINALL and OMAHLAY for dia single wey dem call One Call for 2024.

For dat same 2024, she bin feature Tems for her first studio album, Tyla + for di song, No. 1.

Di latest collabos wit Nigerian stars na for 2025 and Wizkid join her song Dynamite. She tok say she bin record di song wit am for 2022 but e just take time for di song to come out.

She also be part of di group of African artistes, like Wizkid and Burna Boy wey dey call for di global music industry to no box African artistes for inside di term Afrobeats.

Dis na she don win mulitble awards for di Afrobeats category and collect Grammy twice for Best Afrcan Music Performance for 2024 wen she do Water and 2026 for Push 2 Start.

See even di World Cup enta di Whatsapp group of how African kontris seem to dey blacklist South Africa since di protests against immigration for di kontri.

Dis comot as many of di African fans wey go for di event bin openly dey support any team wey Bafana Bafana bin dey play against.

Also South Africa Minster of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mmamoloko Kubayi tok about how one artiste bin tell am say dem bin cancel all her shows across di continet.

In fact dis Tyla mata mirror wetin do Burna Boy for 2019.

Burna Boy bin call out di xenophobi attacks wey bin dey happun for South Africa for Speember of dat year as im declare say, im no go enta di kontri to perform till dem shape up.

Tori be say dis tweet start beef and di now late AKA.

No be only am bin tok for di mata as stars like Wizkid, Yemi ALade and Ycee even chook mouth inside di mata.

Howeva, for Novemberof dat same year, Burna Boy say e dey do African Unite Concert for Cape Town in which e promise to donate part of di money from di concert give victims of xenophobic attacks.

Pipo hala am wit some even saying im beef wit AKA ova xenophobia na im cause one Nigerian to kpai during di kasala.