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AKA has expressed his disappointment in the ANC on Twitter. Image via Twitter/ AKA

AKA receives death threats from Nigerians, over a football tweet

AKA shared screenshots of the hate mail he has received from Nigerian accounts after a football tweet he posted ages ago resurfaced in a conversation about xenophobia.

Andile Sicetsha
by Andile Sicetsha
04-09-2019 09:41
in Lifestyle
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AKA has expressed his disappointment in the ANC on Twitter. Image via Twitter/ AKA

Kiernan Forbes, otherwise known as AKA, has been told to never set foot in Nigeria again, following the outburst of xenophobic attacks that have placed Africa’s two superpowers at odds with each other.

Xenophobic attacks: What’s the latest?

It seems, for now at least, that the widespread xenophobic attacks and looting targeted at foreign-owned shops around Gauteng have come to an end.

According to JMPD head, David Tembe, police arrested five suspects that were caught looting a store on Leyds and Wanderers Street, in Johannesburg.

While police have made hundreds of arrests and restored law and order in most parts of the province, there has been a WhatsApp message that has been doing the rounds on social media about a planned riot in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 4 September.

However, this has not been verified and police have maintained a heavy presence in the province, on the lookout for any suspicious activity in and around informal business areas that are operated by foreign nationals.

What does the violence have anything to do with AKA?

Most people woke up to the news of the looting of South African businesses in different parts of Nigeria. Videos and images of the violent scenes have been doing the rounds on social media since Tuesday evening.

It seems that this is a direct response to the attacks that have been ongoing in South Africa for more than a week. So, what does any of this have to do with AKA?

Well, an old tweet posted by the rapper resurfaced online as tensions between the two countries grew over the attacks we have recently seen.

You will remember that South Africa lost to Nigeria in the recent AFCON quarterfinal match. Like many other South Africans, the rapper reacted in disappointment, especially since Bafana Bafana lost to its continental arch-rival.

Taken into the context of the current xenophobic tensions between the two countries, Nigerians felt that AKA was using his celebrity to express his perceived disdain of Nigeria.

Of course, this was not true but people ran with the narrative, and the rapper was subjected to a string of death threats from Nigerian accounts warning him to never set foot in the country again.

Nigerian celebrities join anti-AKA bandwagon

His former allies and collaborators, Ice Prince and Burna Boy, joined the bandwagon too, calling AKA out for tweets that, in truth, had nothing to do with the ongoing xenophobic situation in South Africa.

AKA, in response, did not bite the bait. Instead, the rapper nonchalantly disregarded the threats and called for unity in the continent.

Is jy Afrikaans? Kliek hier vir nuus in jou taal!

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