Ghana Music Awards 2011 ‘Best Rapper of the Year’ and ‘Hip Life Song of the Year’ nominee Guru is ready with the music video for his new single ‘Mmaa Kuo’
Listen to him Guru: “Every time I release a single, I try to impact society positively, hence in this single all I did was to touch on the wrong doing of many acclaimed young Christians’ in our societies”
I was sent a link to a blog this morning, a blog owned by A Nigerian and to my surprise, there have been a post claiming that Nigerian women have been adjudged the most beautiful in Africa. I am not sure where this is coming from or who made the research. If any research was made at all, then I swear the researcher skipped Ghana.
Most of the comments under the article supported the above claim. Few of the comments disputed the claim and said Tanzania women are the most beautiful in Africa.
I kept reading the over 50 comments and no one seemed to recognize that the African Queens, the land of beauty, the land where its women are blessed with huge front and backside as well as long hair does exist. Ghanaian women have it all, my Nigerian friends have always envied my long natural hair, my front and back (my body shape) and above all, my facial appearance. So where is this coming from?
I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who is an upcoming actor in Ghana. We got to talking about the Ghanaian movie industry primarily the scripts and actors’ pay.
Well I was awakened by the information I was privy to receiving and although it was not salacious, it was very insightful. I came away from the conversation with a few thoughts in mind, hence this article.
Who is making the money in the Ghanaian movie industry? I am the first to admit that I operate on a ‘western’ mentality because by any stretch of imagination that’s all I know.
In all honesty I will say that I was constantly comparing the Ghana movie industry to the American movie industry. I will tell you why. The comparison was on the professional approach to contracts, plagiarism, and permissive use of music in films. I am not in any way addressing the quality of the scripts.
Let me start with permissive use of music in films. The entertainment industry is a huge one, whether in the USA or elsewhere in the world. The movie industry cannot strive on dialogue alone.
“Grace, I want you to dress appropriate for the upcoming stock broker’s dinner dance because my boss and the entire staff members will be there. Remember, I just got promoted. No embarrassment”
“Grace, my parents are visiting this weekend, can you tidy up the house, especially the kitchen. Since my mother is an obsessive compulsive neat freak”.
“You have a lot of lip stick on, stop talking to these men at your work place, prepare this meal, do the laundry on Thursdays and so on”. Men are always in command, searching for more and always demanding a lot from their women.
“Jimmy, can you pass by the mall after work and get me the Christian louboutine shoes we saw the other day. ” Can you pass me the plate Jimmy”.. Jimmy, please watch the baby whiles I clean up your mess….Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy….do this, do that.
Expectations in relationships can be really high and stressful.
Women do not like submissive men, and men do not like dominant women.
Life is full of secrets and tricks, knowing much of these would determine to a greater extent your success. These are not magical concepts but secrets and tricks derived from the experiences and achievements of many.
I know you have once looked at things and wondered why you are still not achieving the best for your life. You have the desire for success and yet you are being held back by unascertained force.
Those at the peak of the success ladder and achieving all the greatness in life are not more human than you. In fact, you are smart, hard working and forceful than majority of them. What is the problem with you and you only then?
