Beyoncé Accused Of Cultural Appropriation
Beyonce is being accused of taking advantage of Africa!
A Nigerian model, Dimssoo, says that the singer is contributing to the flawed ideologies concerning how Africa is seen by the world.
Beyoncé🤝including African culture in her music but never adding Africa to her tours
Same Beyonce🤝Making a whole movie based off Africa and its culture that’s not available in Africa.— #1, again. (@Dimssoo) June 28, 2020
The model also accused Bey of cultural appropriation.
Dimssoo continued:
I want to add that I’m not saying she has to come to Nigeria or what not. I’m saying she’s contributing to the problematic ideologies of how ‘Africa’ is viewed to line her own pockets. And Africa isn’t even a country. She’s mostly taking from Yoruba culture so-
— #1, again. (@Dimssoo) June 29, 2020
She also added:
We don’t wake up in the morning and tie our wrapper and put chalk on our face and scream ‘WAKANDA’ then go and hunt lions. We wake up and open twitter like the rest of the world. Pls stop pushing this old narrative bc later,-
— #1, again. (@Dimssoo) June 29, 2020