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The popularity of detty December is because of the popularity of afro beats.

The same happened when ragge and dance hall were the hottest thing in the world.

Everyone wanted to see Jamaica.

Once that genre of music stop popping, they went to the next one.

It is afro beats time, once the popularity stops, detty December will see its own decline.

Everyone wanted to see Jamaica.

Everyone in temperate climates still wants to see Jamaica. The hunt for their festivals reduced. People still visit in droves and the country makes use of tourism as a business.

The popularity of detty December is because of the popularity of afro beats.

The upsurge. Foreigners of Nigerian descent will still come to Nigeria. Parents want the children to experience a slice of home. It has been like that and will continue post Detty December.

motymop:
The popularity of detty December is because of the popularity of afro beats.

The same happened when ragge and dance hall were the hottest thing in the world.

Everyone wanted to see Jamaica.

Once that genre of music stop popping, they went to the next one.

It is afro beats time, once the popularity stops, detty December will see its own decline.

Fallacy. Jamaican is one of the top travel destinations in the Caribbean till date. Detty December in Nigeria is majorly 98% Nigerians abroad coming back home not foreigners

The thread should be closed. The two commentators have done justice to it. Saying Jamaica does not receive tourists nullified everything. There is nothing fascinating or nice about winters, especially frigid ones with no escape for the sun. Caribbean islands still get tourists, notwithstanding the alarmist rhetoric about insecurity. As gun-shooting as Jamaica is or "unsafe" as the Bahamas might be, they get tons of tourists from the US, Canada and the UK. More multimillion-dollar hotels are built across Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas every Eke market day.

Lastly, the majority of "tourists" into Nigeria are Nigerians: first and second generation. Nigeria does not attract foreign tourists as our counterparts in Southern and Eastern Africa do. In fact, more tourists troop into Ghana than Nigeria. Detty December came as a result of the Ghanaian initiative to commemorate the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Detty December didn't originate from Nigeria.

Na so dem talk say South Africa is crime ridden, yet tourists steadily flock into the country.

eepeepook:
Everyone in temperate climates still wants to see Jamaica. The hunt for their festivals reduced. People still visit in droves and the country makes use of tourism as a business.


The upsurge. Foreigners of Nigerian descent will still come to Nigeria. Parents want the children to experience a slice of home. It has been like that and will continue post Detty December.

Succinctly stated.

This isn't about any Afrobeats like the OP suggested.

Many African-Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-South Americans, etc, are using ancestry DNA testings to trace what parts of Africa they and their direct ancestors originate from and this has further fueled their holiday trips to especially Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Cameroon, DR Congo, Angola, etc, which are the dominant areas where their ancestors where deported from via slave ships largely from the 1500s to the 1800s.

The iconic former Heavyweight boxing champion, "Iron Mike Tyson" was recently in DR Congo where he affirmed that a part of his ancestry comes from.