READERS’ MAIL: The Ignorance Of Ghanaian Celebrities-Ama K Abebrese & Lydia Forson For Slamming One Direction Over Their ‘Poverty’ Tweets

UK boy band-One Direction recently visited Ghana under the auspices of Comic Relief, an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.

One Direction’s trip to Ghana was in preparation for the coming Red Nose Day to help raise funds and support poor children around the globe (this time Ghana) to bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of these poor and disadvantaged children.

Whiles in Ghana for SOLELY this purpose, ‘One Direction’ spent time with and took photos of several poor children who live in the slums. Their account, photos and videos will be used to raise funds for these children.

After their Comic Relief visit to Ghana, they took to twitter as part of their campaign against poverty and also making known the plight of these disadvantaged children by tweeting emotionally touching photos of the Ghanaian children who live in the slums(those they met).

Among other messages, Niall Horan, a member of the band  tweeted: “Just arrived back from Accra,Ghana! Best life experience ever! This @rednoseday please get involved!”

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He again tweeted that: “I’ve seen the slums right in front of me! This is no joke! They really need your help! Poverty is real!,” and added that: “Massive thanks to @rednoseday for taking us to Ghana! It was incredible! Real eye opener! We take so much for granted over here!”

Another member of the group, Harry Styles, tweeted: “Today was the most amazing day I’ve had so far..In my life ever.”

From the many tweets they sent out including the above, it is clear that these guys were only given attention to their main reason for visiting Ghana (comic relief’s Red Nose Day). No where in their tweets did they imply or suggest that the whole of Ghana is poor or the entire country is a slum.

They were simply bringing to the attention of their over 9 million twitter followers of their recent comic relief trip to Ghana, the poverty they say as a result of trip and calling their fans to get involved in helping disadvantaged children, which is the reason why Comic Relief exists.

What is wrong with this? What did they do wrong that our dear ‘ignorant’ celebrities have to slam them…

Ama K Abebrese tweeted them to say: “understand its for charity, but this highly negative image of sub Saharan African countries like Ghana….. that you choose to focus on without balance for the so many positive aspects to your millions of ff”.

REALLY?

Why must they deviate from why they visited Ghana and talk about the other things they saw? They were not in Ghana as tourists, they were there for a purpose and that is what they have to talk about or account for.

Actress Lydia Forson also tweeted: “Dear @onedirection next you visit a country, remember like yours there are beautiful and ugly parts. Don’t base your views on one part”.

Here again,  you can see clearly that like Ama K Abebrese, Lydia Forson was not informed about the reason why One Direction visited Ghana in the first place.

Why should they talk about the beautiful part of Ghana when they came solely for those poor children?

I just do not get the logic and sense in this…

What even upsets me most is that, what are these loud mouth actresses doing to help these poor children?  Yet, they have the audacity to slam the people who dedicated their travel and tweets to these children. When all they dedicate their tweets to everyday are shallow things like photo shoots, fake shoes, fake bags, clothes and phones.

From: Cindy Ofori/ U.S.A

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