News from the pop star Michael Jackson of death was with a mixture of disbelief and sadness across Africa.
Nigeria, a newscaster at Radio Continental disrupted directly on the air and can not continue his program.
A woman broke into tears in the Ghana capital Accra, after being informed by a reporter from the BBC about the death of a musician.

In 1999, received a Lifetime Achievement Award for South Africa Nelson Mandela at the Kora All Africa Music Awards.

Michael Jackson has the first continent in the age of 14 that the lead singer of the Jackson Five.
Exiting the plane in Senegal, he replied to a host of drummers and dancers to shout:”This is where I come. ”

“Spectacular disappointment”

There will be a tour in Africa 19 years later, when the King of Pop was an officer in several African villages.
But the trip has rapidly become a public relations nightmare in the middle, the information the police had suggested the people who went to see the complaints in the local media that the pop star has been keeping his nose, as a bad smell. Ghanaian journalists Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, who says she was a big fan Jackson Five as a girl, covered the visit.

She said he spent most of the time locked up in his luxurious hotel or hidden in the car to the exit.
If the car wound for a minute letter for him to greet the fans, they asked him, on his trip through Africa, and he answered enough: “Beautiful, I love it.”

It was a spectacular disappointment in many ways, Ms. Quist-Arcton said the BBC’s Network Africa program.
But the masses, who in the direction of the road from Abidjan during his visit, testifies to its immense popularity through the continent, where the fans expressed their dismay before his death.

Tom Oladipo BBC commercial matters in the capital of Nigeria Lagos told Radio Continental projectionist sobbing interrupted live on the air after hearing the new Co-speaker and had the talent. One of the brothers of Michael Jackson, Marlon, is the development of controversial luxury, a mixture of a theme park in the history of slaves and a museum for the Jackson Five in Nigeria.

He also has passionate fans in Ghana.

“That is not true, no it is not true,” one woman wailed in Accra accused his counterpart, our correspondent or lying on the news of the death of Jackson.

“There is a legend, he shall not die,” a woman in the Kenyan capital told the BBC.
But others have concerns about his obsession with his appearance.

“He was proud not to be a black American, it was not, he probably wanted to know,” says a man in Nairobi.

BBC Jonah Fisher in Johannesburg says Michael Jackson, the concrete implementation of the Africa is at the peak of his career in the mid-1980s, when he co-authored the charity song We are the World with Lionel Ritchie.

Sung by a group of prominent artists who are alone more than the cards in the world to raise awareness and more than 50 million U.S. dollars for the famine in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

Glastonbury fans tribute to Michael Jackson, deceased today (June 25) at the age of 50 years.
The king of pop music is played in the Festival website Worthy Farm in Somerset, as fans breaking spontaneous applause.
Gigwise’s Scott Coloroll Than on the event, described the atmosphere as “surreal” night “, says he lived in a music festival.

Jackson’s shock death, provides shade on the event, officially launching in the morning.
As reported on Gigwise, Jackson is looking to the hospital in her home in Los Angeles, who suspected a heart attack.

Jackson’s death a few weeks before the singer was on his back with a 50-night concert in London.

Madonna said she “can not stop crying over the death of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop.
The singer, nicknamed the Queen of Pop, said the people she had always admired the stars.

“The world has one of the greatest, but his music will live forever,” she says.
“My heart is with her three children and other relatives. God bless you.”

Madonna enters a growing list of musicians and celebrities who paid tribute to Jackson, died this afternoon (June 25) of a heart attack in Los Angeles.

In a message on Twitter, Britney Spears, said Jackson was “a great man and will be very missed.”

Jackson died in less than a month before the singer has returned to London pop.
The King of Pop was to 50 dates in the O2 Arena in the city.

Michael Jackson is a sensational talent child star, who rose to become the “King of Pop” and the biggest celebrity in the world that fall within the scope of his throne is a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday . It was the 50th

An autopsy was scheduled for Friday, although the results may not be final until toxicology tests could be completed, a process that takes several days and sometimes weeks. Police said they were considered by the investigator – the standard of big business.

Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after suffering his rented house in the chic Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to revive him at his home nearly three quarters of an hour, then rushed to hospital where doctors have continued to work with him.

“It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until results of the autopsy are known,” his brother Jermaine said.

Jackson’s death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes grotesque decline in its heyday in the 1980s, when he was the first popular music around artist UNITER black and white music that destroys the race barrier on MTV, has dominated the charts and even more surprised at the podium.

“For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don’t have the words,” said Quincy Jones, who produced “Thriller.” “He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I’ve lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him.”

“It seemed to me that his internal essence was at war with the norms of the world. It’s as if he was trying to defy gravity,” said Michael Levine, a Hollywood publicist who represented Jackson in the early 1990s. He called Jackson a “disciple of P.T. Barnum” and said the star appeared fragile at the time but was “much more cunning and shrewd about the industry than anyone knew.”

Singer Dionne Warwick said: “Michael was a friend and probably one of the greatest artists Fortunately I had the pleasure to work with. … We lost an icon of our industry. ”

Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital as word of his death spread. The emergency entrance to the UCLA Medical Center, located near Jackson’s lease was with strings police tape.

“Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died,” a woman aboard a bus in Manhattan called shortly after the news was announced. As many riders reached for their cellphones.

Many people wanted to check first reports of the death of Jackson that computers running Google interpreted the news section of the shooting “Michael Jackson” applications as an automated attack for about half an hour Thursday evening.

In New York’s Times Square, a low moan rose in the crowd at a flashing screen that Jackson was dead, and people began to relay the news to friends by cellphone.

“No joke. King of Pop is no more. Wow,” Michael Harris, 36, of New York City, read from a text message a friend sent to his telephone. “It’s like when Kennedy was assassinated. I will always remember being in Times Square when Michael Jackson died.”