{"id":528902,"date":"2025-05-12T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.fr\/en\/?p=528894"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:37:08","slug":"tems-dont-judge-africa-before-visiting-nigeria-and-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/tems-dont-judge-africa-before-visiting-nigeria-and-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Tems: \u201cDon\u2019t judge Africa before visiting Nigeria and Ghana\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Afrobeats sensation <strong>Temilade Openiyi<\/strong>, known globally as <strong>Tems<\/strong>, has urged the world to look beyond stereotypes and experience the richness of African culture\u2014starting with <strong>Nigeria and Ghana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to <em>Fashion Bomb Daily<\/em> on the red carpet of the <strong>2025 Met Gala<\/strong> in New York, the Grammy-winning artist encouraged people to visit <strong>Lagos<\/strong> and <strong>Ghana<\/strong> to get a genuine glimpse of everyday life in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always encouraged people to go to Lagos and Ghana for their holidays. Go and see it for yourself before forming an opinion [about Africa]. See it for yourself and decide what you think,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Tems emphasized that Africa\u2019s true beauty lies in its cultural depth and creative spirit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI think [Africa\u2019s beauty] is in its creativity, its daily hustle, its gazes, its songs, its traditions, and its cultures,\u201d the Nigerian star added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>She also highlighted the <strong>musical diversity<\/strong> that exists across the continent, pushing back against the global assumption that African music is limited to Afrobeats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe [Africans] can go further in every dimension of sound. We\u2019re not just Afrobeats. There\u2019s Amapiano, Afro-soul, R&amp;B, Afro-jazz. There are so many African genres the world hasn\u2019t fully tapped into yet,\u201d Tems concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrobeats sensation Temilade Openiyi, known globally as Tems, has urged the world to look beyond stereotypes and experience the richness of African culture\u2014starting with Nigeria and Ghana. Speaking to Fashion Bomb Daily on the red carpet of the 2025 Met Gala in New York, the Grammy-winning artist encouraged people to visit Lagos and Ghana to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":527719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"pays":[144],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"pays-nigeria-west-africa"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528902"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528902"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}