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CELEBRITY IDOLIZATION: A MODERN MENACE.

  It is not surprising that the over- adoration of society’s pseudo-characters called celebrities are too becoming of our emerging youths to the extent that some have based their entire life style activities on whatever come from this “yeyebrities” as some netizens will call them! If this is how your existence has been shaped, then you are developing a generation of fakeness and vagueness of personalities.  Not only are celebrities the protagonists of our news, the subject of our daily discourse and the repositories of our values, but they also embedded themselves so deeply in our consciousness that many individuals profess feeling closer to, and more passionate about, them than their own primary group (family). Note that the definition giving to the word “celebrity” at times extends beyond hip-hop artist, influencers, actors and actresses, comedians and the likes of “bobriskies”. I am not oblivious of that fact, but my analysis here is solely concerned with the idolizatio...