Half an hour before we went on air for
the late edition of #theTrend last
Friday, my long-suffering producer,
Kevin Gitau, received a text message
that Nigerian guest Timaya had
cancelled his appearance on this
peasant’s show.
Never mind that we had a contract
with the organisers of BBQ Live, where
he would be performing the next day.
“Nothing of value was lost,” I later
remarked on air while explaining why
he wouldn’t be showing up.
I wasn’t just being savage because of
sour grapes, I honestly didn’t know
who Timaya was. The always
entertaining Kenyan group, The
Kansoul, even teased me about it on
the show just a fortnight ago.
So when I heard that someone I
neither knew nor cared about couldn’t
be bothered to honour a contract and
show up to promote his concert, I felt
no sense of loss or disappointment.
It wasn’t the first time a guest had
changed their mind about coming on
the show at the last minute. It wasn’t
even the first time a Nigerian guest
had confirmed that they would come in
for an interview, only to drop out at
the eleventh hour.
It comes with the territory and we’ve
learnt to quickly reorganise the
broadcast when that happens because
we are live and the show must go on.
There was the time Flavour ran into
trouble with Immigration on his arrival
in the country and threw a great big fit.
Gospel singer Sinach apparently
refused to leave her room when it was
time to head out to Nation Centre and
she couldn’t be convinced otherwise.
Meh, I always respond when I hear of
these
tantrums and promptly move on.
To be fair, it’s not just Nigerian stars
who do this but they are more
temperamental than any other
nationality we have dealt with over the
years. The stories of the divas and
prima donnas with pidgin accents my
team have could fill a book.
Days before Timaya’s non-event,
there was Burna Boy’s objectively
underwhelming performance at a club
in Westlands. Fans complained that
they had to wait until 4am, only for the
Nigerian artiste to give a lacklustre
show.
The morning after, Twitter was
ungovernable as Kenyans called him
out and some demanded back the
Sh1,500 they had paid as gate
charges.
He was abusive and immature and
blocked anybody whose tweets he
didn’t appreciate.
“Do not stoop to the level of replying
some peasants (sic)…plenty talk no
dey full basket,” one of his countrymen
tweeted him. “I’m bored (expletive)
here + I couldn’t find a flight out this
morning. So these ‘peasants’ are my
entertainment till I dip,” he responded.

source- http://www.trendsng.com/2017/04/why-do-we-love-nigerian-artistes.html?m=1

Its a state of ignorance for one to disrespect or look down on another.