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Talked about this with a friend some hours ago. It’s real.
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New 🔥 from 👑 @wendyshaygh “This & That” ft yours truly OUT NOW onerpm.link/this-and-that
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Soooo beautiful 🤩
Guess I ain’t returning back to Ghana ! No place like Home “AFRICA” … Kenya adopt me already !!! 😁 #TheAfricanDiaries
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Mathew Adabuga:
Frame 1: In his days at the Boys’ Company, Bantama, Kumasi 1977
Frame 2: (middle) After helping oust Limann’s government in 1982.
The Boys’ Company really groomed real lions. No wonder it was disbanded, cos see small boys and the courage they had.
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Right to Dream opened in Egypt in October 2023… three years on, the Egyptian government recognised its value & has partnered with it to establish regional football centres.
In Ghana, Right to Dream has existed for over 25 years, with no such partnership.
Says everything.
Egypt 🇪🇬 Ministry of Youth and Sports has partnered with Right to Dream to establish five regional football development centres as part of a national initiative to identify and nurture young talent across the country.
The agreement was formalised on Tuesday through a cooperation protocol signed by Youth and Sports Minister Gohar Nabil and Right to Dream International Academy chairman Sir Mohamed Mansour.
Under the initiative, five regional centres will be established and operated across Egypt, providing young footballers with access to professional training, education and other development opportunities.
According to a statement from the Egyptian Government, each centre will feature football pitches, fitness facilities, classrooms, medical facilities and accommodation. Operations will begin in phases.
Right to Dream Academy started from Ghana. Hehehehehe
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BTS: Sarkodie at mathare kids talents hub in Kenya . 🇰🇪
#TheAfricanDiaries
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👨🏾🍳🇬🇭: Exhibit A.
You see the way you’re smiling foolishly?
✋🏾🙂↕️✋🏾
👨🏾🍳🇬🇭: Some of y’all didn’t even want to associate with Azonto until it went global.
You embraced “Nigerian-like” sounds, but when Azonto became a “Ghana to the world” moment, suddenly everyone wanted to claim it.
And let’s be honest: by many of today’s standards, Azonto might not have been considered “good” music. It may not have stood a chance with some of y’all through the lens you use now.
Yet it was unmistakably Ghanaian. It gave us a sound, movement, and cultural identity the world could immediately recognize.
3/5
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❤️
Guess I ain’t returning back to Ghana ! No place like Home “AFRICA” … Kenya adopt me already !!! 😁 #TheAfricanDiaries
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Guess I ain’t returning back to Ghana ! No place like Home “AFRICA” … Kenya adopt me already !!! 😁 #TheAfricanDiaries
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chale see how adey smile for here😂🔥
Guess I ain’t returning back to Ghana ! No place like Home “AFRICA” … Kenya adopt me already !!! 😁 #TheAfricanDiaries
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👨🏾🍳🇬🇭: Finally, in a world where marketing increasingly determines what gets heard, celebrated & consumed, we ALSO need to be honest about the difference between what SELLS and what is simply GOOD MUSIC.
Commercial success is not always a measure of musical quality. Neither is the absence of it proof that the music isn’t good.
Sometimes, the difference between a hit and an overlooked masterpiece isn’t the music. It’s the machinery behind it.
Stream a Ghanaian song today.
Shalom✌🏾.
5/5.
END🧶.
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👨🏾🍳🇬🇭: Before the blow-up, where was the support?
Azonto wasn’t “Nigerian-like,” so what exactly is the standard we’re applying today?
I’m trying so hard not to sound like a broken record every time this conversation comes up each year. It’s tiring. It’s exhausting.
There are problems.
Systemic ones.
This is just one of them.
4/5
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👨🏾🍳🇬🇭: The two can overlap, but they are not the same.
A song can be excellent without sounding distinctly Ghanaian. And a song can sound unmistakably Ghanaian without being the kind of music everyone considers “good” by their personal standards.
We need to quickly acknowledge this distinction because what may sell Ghana to the world and place us in our own lane may not be your preferred sound or personal taste.
2/5
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👨🏾🍳🇬🇭: My final take [A THREAD👇🏽]:
we need to & agree & be honest about what we want- good Ghanaian music, music that sounds uniquely Ghanaian, or both.
Because many of the arguments about what will make our sound globally visible keep conflating two different things.
🧵1/5
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