We Demand! Support Us and Vocal Slender From 'Welcome To Lagos'

As I type this on the 3rd day the supporter count stands at 249. Thank You! 

But we need more!

You DON'T have to be Black and you don't have to be British to support this. 

The BBC show it's programmes around the world, so this is not just a UK thing. 

1. Join and support the Facebook Campaign http://www.facebook.com/WeDemand
2. Buy Vocal Slender's music on iTunes and support his Myspace page.
3. Link our campaign to your Blog or your Facebook Status.
4. Re-Tweet on Twitter [and if you can fit it in] add #wedemand to your tweet.

ALL OF THOSE THINGS YOU CAN DO WHILST SITTING ON YOUR ARSE!

Vocal Slender works and lives on a rubbish dump in Lagos, Nigeria. He sorted through rubbish to sell to raise money for the studio time and to get pictures taken for his album. If that isn't a hard-working and determined brotha, then I don't know what is.

His track 'Owo Yapa' was featured in the BBC2 documentary 'Welcome To Lagos.' I heard through the Twitter grapevine that the BBC put his MySpace page together. Whether that is true or not I do not know. What I do know is after watching 'Welcome To Lagos' I wanted to buy Vocal Slender's track and the BBC didn't even put anything at the end of the programme to tell the viewers where we could buy it to support Vocal Slender. Don't even make me turn into a conspiracy theorist. So what, it's OK to show these people down and out, but have the means for the British public to help them and they can't even tell us how? You see how they stay? It's word of mouth tha

His music is available on iTunes and he has a MySpace page set up. It says he's currently unsigned, but something tells me he will be signed pretty soon.

Our campaign is NOT to get programmes like 'Welcome To Lagos' banned, we UNDERSTAND the importance of telling a variety of stories where it comes to the depiction of black people and Africa as a continent. We are demanding a balance of programmes to be shown where it comes to Africa as a people.


I love this tune...and as I type it's downloading on iTunes.

Want Better Black Programming From The BBC? Then Let's Start Here!

Myself and Shona Vixen have joined forces and started a campaign called "We Demand a Better Balance For Black Programming On The BBC!"

All we ask is for your support.

Support Us HERE

Let me be...and keep it real.

A lot of you will have no problem on Twitter re-tweeting crap videos, links to blogs, competitions, give-aways, contributing to dumb ass trending topics with a quickness, and commenting it on it for 3 tweets in a row. I myself am one of those people too. Some of the same people moan and complain that there isn't good enough representation on televison for Black people. I too have been one of those people!

I am T.I.R.E.D. of hearing my own damn echo, getting mad, sitting down and doing nothing! So we are NOW going to TRY and do something about it, but we need your help.

Support Us HERE

In a nutshell the BBC needs to up it's game when it come to Black programming. It's the same thing, poverty, rape, destitution, crime, big bellies, famines, AIDS, malaria n flies. And just when you thought we'd seen it all. Black folks living amongst a rubbish dump.

ENOUGH ALREADY! IT'S THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER!

CAN WE HAVE A BALANCE?

We are NOT saying this type of programming needs to stop. Awareness is vital and necessary. What we are asking for is simply a balance. Show the good and positive sides of life in Africa and the BBC.

We have started a Facebook campaign, and a petition to the BBC will be created over the next few days. [We want to get the wording on it JUST RIGHT] so won't put it out there just yet.

All we are asking for is 2 things [that's if you believe in it] simply join the group on Facebook and when the petition is up online and running SIGN it.

OK one more thing...spread the word please, RT on Twitter put it in your FB status. E-mail it to your friends and family. The same way you can RT that damn Lady Gaga video or Whitney attempting to sing, we ask you to do the same of this.

We really want this to go somewhere and with a collective effort and the awesome power in numbers hopefully they will sit up and take notice.

I don't care if you live in Timbuktu, Botswana or the Outer Hebrides. Support n Sign!

Support Us HERE

Whether you're black, white, red, blue, green or yellow I don't care. You maybe a white mother to a mixed race child who is equally concerned about the constant negative depictions about Africa. This isn't just for Black people to sign. If you enjoy Black programming and want a better balance from the BBC then this is also for you. Remember the BBC airs documentaries GLOBALLY. It's not just a 'UK thing!'

It has to start somewhere folks. We want it to be one of those Facebook groups that just from the amount of members alone it gains press coverage, but we will be doing that anyway. We have the contacts for newspapers like The Guardian, Observer, The Independent, The Voice, Pride and Ninety Nine magazines here in the UK. We will be also contacting Nigerian publications as well to make them aware of the campaign, as this all started because of the 'Welcome To Lagos' three part documentary.

Support Us HERE


Please and Thank You
LondonDiva and Shona Vixen

Images from "Welcome To Lagos"