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THE BIG QUESTION: Is Ghana’s Cultural Identity Becoming Extinct?

blankDuring a discussion with colleagues at work this week, the issue of traditional music came up. A Dagomba tune happened to be playing on one of the local radio stations, thus prompting the discussion.

A colleague believed that in the next ten years, most of the Ghanaian youth would have forgotten about our heritage thus creating a problem since the Ghanaian Cultural Identity would be totally extinct. “It’s already happening, the youth are blindly following trends set by the Western World”, one said.

It bothered me as I wondered, do people still know how to play the xylophone, gong, sticks, and maracas in an era where computer generated beats seem to be determining what good music is? Heck! Why am I even surprised? People can sing every line on a Sarkodie or Efya track but fumble through the first verse of the National Anthem.

It seems to me that the traditional music has already gone extinct as most radio stations play mostly hiplife, hip hop and R&B genres on a daily basis while totally ignoring our indigenous music.

I won’t even go into movies. I didn’t realize that “Chineke”  and “Tufiakwa” were now part of the Ghanaian language…

I guess it brings us back to the major question, Is Ghana losing its cultural identity and heritage? If so, what can we do to stop the complete obliteration of a very important element of the country’s history?



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