Stop fighting artists for artists

The weekend is here once more after a long tiresome week, which had lot going on in the entertainment industry. Just some few days ago singer Tems, from Nigeria cancelled her show that was set to happen in Kenya and her promoters went ahead to reveal the real reason as to why she did that.

Eric Omondi, also known as the President of comedy in Africa supported what Tems did as much as her fans in Kenya who had waited for the performance got disappointed.

Eric wrote a post via his social media that the foreign artists coming to perform in Kenya should give us time and maybe start coming for shows after a year.

His kind of approach might be detrimental to the industry, since we are actually moving with the times in the era we are right now. It is no longer about Kenyan artists in Kenya, Nigerian artists remain in Nigerian and so on, it's moving across the borders and working with global stars from all over.

While at it they should be making good music with collaborations. Half of those artists that he is shutting out of Kenya are actually filling the 02 stadium without a sweat. Yet London artists have not put posts of not allowing foreign artists to perform there.

While at it, they are making collaborations with the big artists out there and that's why they easily win the BET, AFRIMMA awards. How are Kenyan artists supposed to collaborate with other big stars if we keep entertaining Eric's narrative of no shows from outside. How do we push our Kenyan artists to where the world is at musically? Fighting artists for artists is creating a gap not a bridge.