Videos recently circulated of Burna Boy driving through Lagos with Very Dark Man (VDM), cash in hand, on their way to a prison to “randomly” free inmates. The clips were edited for social media: gates, uniforms, handshakes, gratitude. It looked like generosity. It also looked like content.
Burna Boy is not just another celebrity dabbling in philanthropy. He is Afrobeats’ most globally legible figure, an artist whose success now sits at the intersection of African cultural production and Western institutional recognition. Few musicians…
