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Burna Boy changes tune, headed to SA weeks after xenophobic attacks rant

Burna Boy [Photo: @burnaboygram]

He had vowed never to set foot in South Africa after the recent xenophobic attacks in the country but now, Nigerian singer Burna Boy has had a change of heart.

“I have not set foot in SA (South Africa) since 2017. And I will not ever go to South Africa again for any reason until the South African government wakes the f**k up and really performs a miracle, because I don’t know how they can even possibly fix this,” he wrote on Twitter after scores of Nigerians were forced to return home.

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