{"id":66292,"date":"2025-05-22T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66292"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:58:42","slug":"burna-boy-bids-farewell-to-african-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/22\/burna-boy-bids-farewell-to-african-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy Bids Farewell to &#8216;African Giant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Global music icon Burna Boy has shocked fans with a dramatic farewell to the \u201cAfrican Giant\u201d persona that propelled him to stardom, declaring it dead and buried-by his own people.<\/p>\n<p>In a revealing Instagram post ahead of his upcoming album No Signs of Weakness, the Grammy winner said the identity that once symbolized African pride and bold resistance was undone not by critics abroad, but by the very audience it was meant to uplift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe African Giant is gone,\u201d Burna wrote, blaming a lack of support and appreciation from Nigerians for the symbolic demise.<\/p>\n<p>This marks a sharp emotional turn in his ongoing tension with the local music scene, which he accuses of ignoring and undervaluing his impact.<\/p>\n<p>First introduced in 2019 and immortalized in his Grammy-winning Twice As Tall, the \u201cAfrican Giant\u201d stood for more than music-it was a movement. But Burna Boy says that movement was never fully embraced at home.<\/p>\n<p>Now stepping into his newer persona \u201cBig 7,\u201d born from his 2023 album I Told Them, Burna presents himself as a tougher, more introspective figure.<\/p>\n<p>This identity wrestles with pain, love, and betrayal-shaped by the wounds of fame and national rejection.<\/p>\n<p>His latest comments arrive just before the release of a major collaboration with American rapper Travis Scott, stirring fresh debate about his legacy and his complicated bond with Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>With No Signs of Weakness on the horizon, Burna Boy seems determined to move forward-stripped of old labels, armored by scars, and ready to roar louder than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Global music icon Burna Boy has shocked fans with a dramatic farewell to the \u201cAfrican Giant\u201d persona that propelled him to stardom, declaring it dead and buried-by his own people. In a revealing Instagram post ahead of his upcoming album No Signs of Weakness, the Grammy winner said the identity that once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":66293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66294,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66292\/revisions\/66294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}