{"id":18887,"date":"2015-07-02T08:31:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T08:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=18887"},"modified":"2015-07-02T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T08:33:24","slug":"why-africans-receive-their-awards-backstage-bet-adjudicator-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/why-africans-receive-their-awards-backstage-bet-adjudicator-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Africans Receive Their Awards Backstage. BET Adjudicator Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the past couple of days there has been a lot of controversy surrounding Sitya Loss hit maker, Eddie Kenzo’s BET award he received on Sunday; one of them includes the criteria used to hand him his award.<\/div>\n
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A lot of complaints have been raised by African artists;\u00a0like Fuse ODG, Yemi Alade, Wizkid, APass among others why BET hands African\u00a0musicians their accolades backstage with others threatening to boycott them.<\/div>\n
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According to these artists, they claim BET doesn\u2019t recognize their hard work and talent and they deserve the same treat as the Americans.<\/p>\n

\"Kwesi<\/a><\/p>\n

Kwesi Kyei Darkwah aka KKD, one of the African adjudicators for BET international issued a statement to address the reasons for BET\u2019s actions. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, BET is a huge American brand so their audience is Americans or people living in America. They have a responsibility to their audience, to generate income, pay taxes to the government of America, create employment, promote artistes or performers with their culture, and to be competitive in their market.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Because of all these, they won\u2019t lose what we call \u2018the battle for the eye ball.\u2019 So BET is doing us good by giving us (Africans) nominations or awards in their award scheme. BET may create opportunities for Africans by giving us nomination or award, recognize us for our culture or learn from them, but they do not see us as superior over theirs! They give recognition and praise to their best thinkers, creators, manufacturers, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

Already, we Africans don\u2019t see our artistes or musicians as big! We see artistes in UK or America as bigger than our own, so the point is, in as much as we don\u2019t see the greatness in our own; we shouldn\u2019t expect others to see them as such!<\/em><\/p>\n

Besides, not all awards are given on stage in this world. It happens at the OSCARS. I\u2019m not justifying BET\u2019s actions anyway. I\u2019ve raised concerns on this issue before at BET\u2019s jury meetings many times. I hope the status quo may change someday. All great cultures, appreciates their own! Let\u2019s start believing and celebrating our own African artists and others will follow suit.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past couple of days there has been a lot of controversy surrounding Sitya Loss hit maker, Eddie Kenzo’s BET award he received on Sunday; one of them includes the criteria used to hand him his award. A lot of complaints have been raised by African artists;\u00a0like Fuse ODG, Yemi Alade, Wizkid, APass among others why BET hands African\u00a0musicians their accolades backstage with others threatening to boycott them. According to these artists, they claim BET doesn\u2019t recognize their hard work and talent and they deserve the same treat as the Americans. Kwesi Kyei Darkwah aka KKD, one of the African adjudicators for BET international issued a statement to address the reasons for BET\u2019s actions. He said: \u201cFirst, BET is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":18890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}