It’s ok to take pictures in Hotel toilets but you have a problem with Nero X’s UK pictures?

• Posted on October 5, 2015October 5, 2015
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Most contemporary youth in Ghana take pictures at every nice place they find themselves, mostly at 4-5 star hotels in the country and bizarrely in the toilets of those plush hotels.

Since ‘Ossey’ Crooner Nero X landed in the United Kingdom, he has been updating his social media often, particularly his Facebook. His daily endeavours are updated on his page and that has been topic of discussion and mockery in Ghana. Some people on social media repost some of the pictures Nero X has posted and jovially add ‘’Nero X in abrokyire,’’ ”Enough of the UK pictures aahba!”

I saw those posts and began going through the posts of Nero X since he landed in the UK. All his posts are the usual ones Ghanaians know; restaurant pictures, train station pictures and videos, his neighbourhood etc. Frankly, there is no big deal about this as his posts end with invitation or hype to his upcoming show on Saturday (10^th October, 2015).

Given the chance to same people who use the hotel toilets to update their social media with pictures and gladly caption them ‘Chilling at La palm with bae,’ ‘Lunch at Movenpick,’ ‘Enemies are not God,’ ‘Levels don change,’ etc, they would have done same or even worst.

For the sake of ‘why do you want to attract attention for yourself, you need to keep a low key profile, you don’t have to put everything out’ syndrome indoctrinated into many minds, there is a quick judgement and raising of eye brows anytime someone does something different from what we are use to.

In the UK, internet is not a luxury like other places in the world; even some buses and trains provide free wireless to its users so the temptation to update social media is stronger unlike other places where some people budget their GHc1 MTN 25MB bundle for a month.

For the type of occupation Nero X is into, regular updates about him is necessary, especially when he is not in the country to travel to and from one media house to the other. For clarity, I was phoned in Ghana by two radio stations to update them on how Nero X’s songs are doing in UK and the first question was ‘Is Nero X that loud in UK like his posts show us on social media?’

Unless you have had that opportunity and have done nothing, it is not convincing to judge and even if you have had that chance and never did doesn’t mean everyone should be like you. If we all think the same in the world, follow the same routine and behave like everyone, we would be robotic in the world.

‘Do your thing let me do mine too,’ ‘travel and see’ two statements I just saw on Facebook.

Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net) @nkcoomson on Twitter