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| One Arica Music Fest Logo |
The show was promoted and announced to start off at 7pm, and on the event venue website everything was set.
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| Awilo and Victoria Kimani |
Due to a football game happening at the Wembley Stadium with a kickoff time of 5.15pm, concert goers were told to arrive early enough to get the show started, and prevent traffic congestion and issues with accessing the venue but the organisers shot themselves in the foot by starting over an hour late.
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| Tiwa Svage at One Africa Music Fest London |
In Nigeria, this would not have been a problem. We are an uncultured and unpunctual people who have been enabled by a lawless society to get away with everything. That’s why we have African time, and ‘Nigerian time’
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| Olamide Baddo At One Africa Music Fest SSE Arene London |
But this was not Lagos and Eko Hotel where you can get away with anything. At Eko Hotels & Suites, event organisers have been known to start shows 3-4 hours after the promoted time, and nothing will happen. The shows will then be stretched into the early hours of the morning. At the Headies 2014, the show actually ended by 4am.
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| Tekno At One Africa Music Fest SSE Arene London |
One Africa Music Festival which is said to be one of the biggest and most exciting music festival to ever hit the UK went down till the early hours of this morning at the SSE Wembley Arena!
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| Davido At One Africa Music Fest SSE Arene London |
Banky W opened the show and everything kicked into motion.
With performances from M.I, Tekno, Davido, Tiwa Savage, Olamide and much more, it was an amazing night for lovers of African music. The show was so lit that they ran out of time and unfortunately The Chief, Jidenna couldn’t perform.
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| Banky W At One Africa Music Fest SSE Arene London |
At the end of the day, the only enduring image on the minds of the Africans who showed up was watching a despondent Banky W on stage, after the venue owners had turned off the power. He cut a solitary and confused figure, holding on the mic, and asking the audience and the organisers the million dollar question:
“Have the turned off the power?”
Yes Sir. They have turned off the power.
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| Jidenna At One Africa Music Fest SSE Arene London |
Cheers to the artists and organizers of #OneAfrica! I was supposed to perform 2night but the show was cut off as I waited backstage. pic.twitter.com/wPlD0pE9Kf— Jidenna (@Jidenna) May 14, 2017
In the final words of Jidenna who was disappointed by the behavior of Africans: "Cheers to the artists and organizers of #OneAfrica," he wrote. "I was supposed to perform 2night but the show was cut off as I waited backstage. I'm disappointed that London wasn't able to see me 2night. Regardless of whose to blame, to make this our time we must be on time #OneAfrica ."
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| Toolz At One Africa Music Fest SSE Arene London |
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