Senegalese-American singer, Akon, has claimed that the world’s richest man and head of the United States Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, is fighting for white folks in South Africa because their black counterparts have better living conditions.
It would be recalled that Elon Musk, who was born and raised in South Africa, has described the country as having “racist ownership laws,” accusing its government of doing too little to stop what he has referred to as a “genocide” against white farmers.
He made the allegations following the passage of a new land law, the Expropriation Act, by the President Cyril Ramaphosa-led government in January.
The law allows the government to expropriate land—sometimes without compensation—under certain circumstances, such as when the land is unused or there is a public interest in its redistribution.
Akon claimed that Musk is fighting for the white folks in South Africa because they live in poorer conditions compared to their Black counterparts.
“In South Africa, white people don’t have it as good as white people have in America. South Africa is probably the one place in Africa that was able to switch the tables where the white folks live in the hood and the black people are living well. This is why Elon Musk is fighting for those white folks in South Africa.
“He feels like they are being mistreated and there is no equality. White folks are fighting for equality in South Africa because Black people are the majority. Blacks in South Africa are united, if all the other [African] countries do that, we will be the superpower of the universe.”
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Akon’s claim that black people have better living conditions than white folks in South Africa does not correspond with available data from the country.
South Africa’s white working population earns nearly three times the average wage of Black workers, according to 2022 World Bank figures.
Despite the end of apartheid 30 years ago, white farmers in South Africa still own about three-quarters of the country’s land, whereas they make up only 7% of the population.
Akon Reveals He Made Wizkid Global
The Senegalese-American artist stated that he was instrumental in launching the international career of Nigerian Afrobeats superstar Ayo Balogun, better known as Wizkid.
According to Akon, Wizkid was still a local act when he signed him to his label in 2008 and helped refine his craft.
Akon also asserted that Afrobeats might not have reached its current global status without his early efforts to nurture Nigerian artists and connect them to larger international markets in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Akon said, “In 2008, I spent my time in Nigeria developing what you see today as Afrobeats. And all of them can attest to it.”
“Wizkid was the first (Nigerian) artist we signed officially then. And then we signed a group called P-Square, the first [Nigerian] group that made it internationally. Wizkid was just the local Nigerian star before we touched him, and it opened up to a bigger market.
“I wouldn’t want to take credit for all of it, but I can tell you that if we didn’t do what we did, Afrobeats would still have been in the same position it was when we got there (Nigeria in 2008). I can tell you 100 per cent. I brought the business side of music to Afrobeats because all they (Nigerian artists at that time) knew about was the creative side of music. There was no business, no infrastructure, none of it attached to it.”
Akon
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