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Ghanaian music star, KiDi has voiced his thoughts about the mounting pressure on public personalities to adopt a position on hot-button or nationally significant subjects.
KiDi, real name Dennis Nana Dwamena, expressed support for using one’s platform to “educate and spread positivity,” but lamented the fact that many public personalities engage in some form of “performative activism” out of fear of criticism rather than genuine concern.
“I am for everybody doing whatever they want with their platform. If God blesses you to a level where you have a platform that can reach people, you can use your platform to educate, spread positivity, and do a lot of things.
“What worries me is that a lot of times, we tend to lose focus, instead of people focusing on the issue at hand, we rather focus on who hasn’t spoken about the issue.
“Then everybody ends up being performative, they will end up doing things because they are afraid of people criticizing them for not doing it, not because they want to do them.
“It mainly comes from people who have an agenda to project, but let’s not lose focus and instead of speaking up about a particular issue, we are looking at who hasn’t spoken up yet,” he said on an interview with YouTuber Kwadwo Sheldon.
He claims that when social topics become popular, particularly on social media, a lot of internet users become sidetracked from meaningful conversation by concentrating on the opinions of others who haven’t spoken up yet rather than the topic at hand.
He also said that although a lot of people support political parties, some people don’t care since they haven’t discovered a choice that speaks to them.
A wider discussion regarding the role of celebrities in political and social matters has been triggered by the singer’s remarks.
Most notably, certain celebrities faced backlash on social media for not participating in the #OccupyJulorBiHouse protests in September 2023, which were at their peak.
Recently, in March 2024, Gospel musician MOG was attacked on social media for refusing to air his views on the Anti-LGBT+ Bill currently awaiting assent by the president.
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