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Temilade Openiyi, the Nigerian singer better known as Tems, has urged the world to look beyond stereotypes and explore the cultures of Africa, starting with Nigeria and Ghana.
In a conversation with Fashion Bomb Daily at the 2025 Met Gala in New York, Tems encouraged foreigners to visit Lagos and Ghana to form their understanding of what life in Africa truly feels like.
She held that the beauty of Africa was in the richness of its cultures and creativity.
Said she: “I always encouraged people to go to Lagos and Ghana for vacation. Just go and see for yourself before you make an opinion. See it for yourself and see how you feel.
“I think it is in the creativity, the daily efforts, the looks, the songs, the traditions and the cultures”.
Tems also spoke about how diverse African music is contrary to the global perception that it is just Afrobeats.
Said the singer: “We can go further in every single aspect of sound. We are not just Afrobeats. There is Amapiano, Afrosoul, R&B, Afro-Jazz. There are so many genres in African music that people are not all the way tapped into yet”.
