By Sampson Unamka
South Africa’s ‘Africa Unite’ concert which aimed to unify all Africans and speak out against xenophobia and gender-based violence dropped Nigerian Singer for no stated reasons by the organiser.
However, the concert which was scheduled to hold on November 24th in Pretoria and Cape Town have now been cancelled.
This was disclosed in an email from the ticketing company to its invitees which read: “Following extensive engagement with Burnaboy’s management team, Phambili Media and Play Network have decided to withdraw Burnaboy from the ‘Africa Unite’ concert’.”
It also sent an SMS to its guest notifying them on the cancellation of the event.
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This could have been a result of the threat messages towards Burnaboy from South Africans via Twitter over the weekend requesting an apology from Burnaboy to AKA and South Africans.
Additional report confirmed that the show was cancelled because the African Giant, Burnaboy was to headline the show and due to low ticket sales.
It’s been a spectacular year for Burnaboy as his album recently got nominated for a Grammy award for Best Music Album with his album ‘African Giant’ and just over the weekend he also sold out Partille Arena in Gothenburg, Sweden. The crowd was made up of white Swedish citizens.
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