Appearing as a guest on the Oui Oui Baguette show hosted by Sally, Nigerian singer Ayra Starr encouraged women to embrace their confident side without being humble about it and that they need to be more hard working than their Male counterparts to reach similar heights in success when asked to give advice to black women and young black girls.
Arya championed the normalisation of letting the female child express herself without being chastised as ‘doing too much’, she encouraged all black girls to ‘show up’ and be bold to chase after any dream of theirs.
The “Rush” crooner said: “My advice to black girls and black women is to work hard. The work that women put into this business is so different and they work so hard. And I’d say don’t be humble about it. That’s where we’re gonna start from.
“I feel like we are brought up to be humble in Nigeria, like when a girl starts to grow up and starts getting confident people are always like ‘too much shakara.’ They would tell them that they have too much shakara and that they should calm down. Let’s stop doing that, let’s stop telling girls to be less confident. Let’s stop telling girls to show up less and not wear their brightest clothes because ‘they like too much shakara.
“Show up, black girls show up, and let heads turn wherever you enter and be the best. You’re already the best so why not be proud of it.”
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