BET Awards Representative Has Finally Spoken About the Discrimination Claims on African Artists

A representative of Black Entertainment Television (BET) has finally spoken about the purported disrespect and discrimination on African artistes at the station’s annual awards in LA, the BET Awards.

According series of tweets by the Rights & Research Administrator for BET’s Business & Legal Affairs, Lilian Blankson, things may get better if African artistes concentrates on pushing their music on international platforms and pushing to get their music played on American radio stations rather than criticizing organisers of the awards who have nothing to lose if they decide to drop the “Best International Act-Africa” category.

She also corrected that the “Best International Act-Africa” category winner is pre-recorded and not presented back stage as reported in the media.

Ms. Blackson also blamed past African winners of that category including Sarkodie, Wizkid, Davido, TuFace, D’Banj among others for keeping quit and not telling Africa the true story of what really happens at the awards. She urged honorees of BET awards particularly from Africa to speak up and paint the right picture to Africa.

Lilian N. Blankson is a reliable authority at BET and their events. She was in charge of producing special productions such as BET’s 25th Anniversary, The BET Awards Show, Celebration of Gospel, Rip The Runway, Comedy Awards, Walk of Fame, Spring Bling, and the Hip Hop Awards for the BET network.

Lilian also produced and directed the first African Cypher on BET that featured Sarkodie and also helped in the execution of the BET International act category.