Venting Should Be Nationalized [Everywhere]
There are so many things that can be said of last week’s public Twitter spat between popular hip hop artist AKA and the mother of his child - the equally well-liked DJ Zinhle, who were both in Swaziland last weekend for the Bushfire festival. I will deliberately not speak to the direct parenting deficiencies that stem from the separation of a child’s biological parents; I’ll obviously be heavily biased towards DJ Zinhle because of the way my life is set up in this regard. AKA is childish and immature for taking his most intimate feelings about his private life into the public space, some said. Others accused DJ Zinhle of the same after she responded fiercely to the fight started by AKA. AKA started the fire when he lamented, to ever-supportive fans, about how the DJ won’t allow him to visit their child who stays with her even though he “paid for the child to have his surname”. He also wailed about how Zinhle and her friends continuously harass his new...