Africa cries for Michael Jackson

In Nigeria, a presenter on Radio Continental broke down live on air and could not continue her program.

A woman in Ghana burst into tears in the capital, Accra, when told by a BBC reporter about the musician’s death.

In 1999, he was presented with a lifetime achievement award by South African icon Nelson Mandela at the Kora All Africa Music Awards.

Michael Jackson first visited the continent at the age of 14 as the lead singer of the Jackson Five.

Emerging from the plane in Senegal, he responded to a welcome of drummers and dancers by screaming: ”This is where I come from."

Source: BBC

Edited by: AHU – Raymond Irambo