Nigeria’s Nobel Prize winning author Wole Soyinka has defended Afrobeats star Davido over a music video he shared on social media that was allegedly offensive to Muslims.
One scene is said to have portrayed men in white clothes dancing in front of a mosque.
This drew criticism from some prompting angry youths in the mainly Muslim north-eastern city of Maiduguri to attack Davido’s posters.
They pulled them down, tore them up and set fire to them, local media reported.
The video – a 45-second clip promoting a new song by Logos Olori who is signed to Davido’s record label – also caused anger on social media.
Some prominent Muslims called for an apology, prompting the Nigerian singer to delete the video from Instagram.
But Prof Soyinka hit out over the backlash, although admitting he had not seen the video because it had been withdrawn. In a letter to Nigeria’s Premium Times news, he said:
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