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SPOTLIGHT: Sam Sarpong-The Quiet Shooting Star

Sam Sarpong
Sam Sarpong

Last week we brought you strong, Peter Mensah and this week we are looking at another hot, solid black man with Ghanaian roots making waves in the showbiz industry outside this country.
Sam Sarpong!!..
Sam was born in London to Ghanaian parents in 1979 and grew up in California. Most of you might not know him because his face isn’t exactly always acting.
If you have watched PUNKD, Keeping Up with the Steins, Sucker Free City, ER, Home Improvement, Boston Public, Glass Heels Duel of legends Lives of the Saints, Young Cesar, the Gary Marshall comedy, Love don’t Cost a Thing(which he is mainly known for) and several others including his own production ‘Nailed’, You just may remember his unmistakable Ghanaian looks.
This African brother is flying high with the big names` and yet he is interestingly a humble soul as he recently played the lead male role as Paul Unanga in the Nigerian collaboration ‘Anchor Baby
Show business seems to be in the blood for this particular man. His Dad apparently works as an executive with Warner Brothers and his sister June Sarpong has a long career of broadcasting in the UK and her own production company (Lipgloss Productions) to boot!

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Did You Hear This: Ghana In Focus This Week…

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July 7: Parliament Acted Wrongly In Vodafone Deal – Report It emerged at the Commercial Court’s sitting in Accra on Thursday that Parliament acted in contravention of the 1992 Constitution in July 2008 when it ratified a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) on the sale of Ghana Telecom to Vodafone without the President’s signature. July … Read more

LIFESTYLE: When Is Respect Enough?

blankPersonally growing up as a Ghanaian, I was always told to respect my ‘Elders’- no matter what.  I guess that is the Ghanaian motto within our culture that some of us are weaned to abide. But when is respect for ‘Elders’ enough?
In the past, many at times, I would question my parents as to why I should respect an ‘Elder’ if I were offended or disagreed with what I am being told to do when I knew it was wrong. For once I had my parents tongue tied and unable to answer my questions. My militant behavior also attracted my siblings; annoying our parents.
Today I still remain verbal with this issue.  Comically, my parents would ask me in our local dialect- Twi- “Why do you talk so much?” and “Why don’t you just listen to what we tell you?”. Even funnier my parents would say “You watch too much T.V., we respected our elders!”. But could it be my parents venerated my strength in regards to vocalization that they could never achieve growing up?
Though my inquisitiveness may be funny in relation to this issue; what about those innocent children growing up believing this in regards to their welfare?
How many stories do we read about our youth being abused mentally, sexually, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually? An outsider looking in would say “Why can’t these kids say something or tell somebody?” or better yet “Why didn’t they tell their parents?”.

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