Tyla’s Lagos Show Was Never Just a Concert

Everyone’s arguing about whether Tyla should’ve cancelled her Lagos show. Femi Makx aka Oluwafemi Makanjuola is asking a different question: what happens when this becomes the new normal?

In one week, Tyla’s Nigeria concert disappeared, Ayra Starr got denied entry into South Africa, and a Nigerian senator called for visa retaliation against South African artists. Three separate headlines. One pattern. In this solo breakdown, Femi traces where this is actually heading, and why the artists caught in the middle might be the first casualties of a crisis they didn’t create.

Amapiano is in every Nigerian playlist. Afrobeats runs through South African clubs. That relationship is now on the clock.

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