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- Settling the Gospel Music Confusion: What is Gospel Music?
- Okyeame Kwame Says ‘Patronize Made in Ghana Products & Stop The Abrofosem’ to Help The Cedi Catch Up
- Leila Djansi Says She Is Not Proud of the Movie ‘A Northern Affair’ & It Falls Below Her Standard of Work…
- Who Rocked The Chopard Diamond Necklace Better: Menaye Donkor Vrs Naomi Watts
| Settling the Gospel Music Confusion: What is Gospel Music? Posted: 01 Mar 2014 06:23 AM PST  Herty Borngreat There are several music genres that have evolved from time past. With the melody, composition, rhythm, and content, one could tell the kind of music genre he or she is listening to. Some of the popular music genres include Hip-hop, Rhythm and Blues (R&B), Hiplife, Highlife, Pop, the almighty Gospel, and many more. I referred to Gospel as the almighty because it is at the centre of my discussion. Many a times, there are controversies surrounding Gospel as a music genre. A clear distinction has not been made with regards to Gospel music and other forms of music like Hiplife, Hip-hop, Blues, R&B, and Highlife in Ghana and other parts of the world. To try and solve this controversy, we need to critically examine some aspects of Gospel music and the other forms of music genres. To do this, let us first look into what Gospel music is. What Really Is Gospel Music? The word Gospel in itself was derived from old English word "god-spell" meaning good news, good message, or glad tidings. It is often connected to the first four books in the New Testament of the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). The good news here refers to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. That will logically mean any song with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as its central message can be described as a Gospel music. Isn't it? Do We Identify A Song As Gospel Music Because of the Beat, the Person, or the Message? In music, every musician associates him/herself with a particular genre. For example if you mention the name of Reggie Rockstone, everybody will tell you he belongs to the Hiplife class. When Kwabena Kwabena is mentioned, Highlife comes to mind immediately. What of Esther Smith and Ohemaa Mercy? No doubt we will put them all in the Gospel category. Does it mean whenever a person identifies him/herself with a particular music genre, he/she is stuck to it? No. Let's take an artist like Chris Brown whose mainstream genre is R&B. He has on many occasions been credited with making Pop, Hip-hop, and Dance songs.(...) © Posted By: BeyondGossip.Com for Ghanacelebrities.com, 2014. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
| Okyeame Kwame Says ‘Patronize Made in Ghana Products & Stop The Abrofosem’ to Help The Cedi Catch Up Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:47 AM PST
For those of us who live abroad, despite being worried about the way the Ghanaian cedi is sinking in value compared to the other currencies, we may not really see the bigger effect. After all, when I manage to send my younger sister 100 pounds, she will get 4.2 million old Ghana cedis, instead of the 3 million she used to receive. With this amount in her hands, she cannot complain that I've not sent her enough—but the truth is, she can't really do much with what I’ve sent her. On a bigger scale, the fall of the cedi is rapidly crippling the economy and if enough is not done, we will end up in a very big gutter, where our currency will be worth less than the paper it is printed on. In March 2013, I wrote an article titled 'Ghana, A Country With Its Own Currency Which Is Not Accepted At Certain Corners' in which I stated that 'though other currencies may be freely accepted within a country, on no occasion should supremacy be given to a foreign currency in relation to the national currency'. I added that 'Increasingly, several top hotels and private schools in Ghana are failing to recognise or accept the Cedi and yet, those in power see nothing wrong with it. The US Dollar has somehow become the operating currency in Ghana' Citing my experience, I wrote 'Last year, I visited Copenhagen (Denmark). During my stay, I decided to visit Malmo (Sweden) which is just 15 minutes on the train from Copenhagen. When I got to Malmo, I tried to purchase a drink with a note from Denmark (Danish Krone) and I was told, "this is Sweden so you cannot use Denmark's currency here", even though these two countries are just 15 minutes away from each other… I am sure even if the Danish Krone was accepted in Sweden; there was no way the national currency (Swedish Krona) would be refused in favour of the Danish Krone. Are the authorities in Ghana trying to say they are unaware that the Cedi is not being accepted as a legal tender in certain corners of Ghana (in top class hotels and private schools)?' Though sad, I am not shocked that the cedi has lost the race against the dollar and the other major currencies. Ghana's Rap Doctor-Okyeame Kwame has just published a creative piece on his Ghanaweb blog titled-Catching Up, which looks at how we can all help to push the cedi to catch up with the dollar.
Read the full article below… I am not an economist. I have no deep idea of indifference curves, money or GDP. I don't even understand marginal utility. What I know is that the underlying philosophy of economics, which is scarcity and choice may not be applicable in Ghana because what we have here is abundance of choices. The dollar has become faster than Usain Bolt and we all have cheered him on and hooted at the cedi by over-criticising the government and also allowing the bolting dollar to create artificial expectation of increase in prices. This has given birth to various excuses; I know some people who owed others before the appreciation of the dollar and now refuse to pay by blaming it on the dollar. In fact, others even blame their malaria on the dollar. Hepatitis B and STDs should also be blamed on the dollar?(...) © Chris-Vincent A. Febiri for Ghanacelebrities.com, 2014. | Permalink | 3 comments | Add to del.icio.us Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 10:31 AM PST  A Northern Affair Leila Djansi back again and this time, she is saying that the movie- A Northern Affair which she recently directed falls below her known standard—and she is blaming it all on the budget. In fact, what baffles some of us is; didn't she know about the budget of the movie before taking up the job? If you have a standard and you are keen on maintaining it, you have to go all out there to do so—including not taking up jobs which will throw you back because of the budget. Anyway, Leila has launched a blog where she rants and dissects certain issues so as her latest, she has written a piece explaining how the low budget of ‘A Northern Affair’, made the movie fall below her standard of work. And according to her, some people close to her even said the movie was not like her style of work when it came out… I guess Leila Djansi has to give props to those film-makers who are able to make great movies despite the financial holdback. Read excerpts from what Leila had to say about 'A Northern Affair' which features John Dumelo, Joselyn Dumas, Jon Germaine and others… Interestingly, the movie won almost all the awards at the 2013 Ghana Movie Awards…(...) © Posted By: BeyondGossip.Com for Ghanacelebrities.com, 2014. | Permalink | 5 comments | Add to del.icio.us Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
| Who Rocked The Chopard Diamond Necklace Better: Menaye Donkor Vrs Naomi Watts Posted: 28 Feb 2014 08:32 AM PST  Menaye Donkor and Naomi Watts Menaye Donkor and the British-Australian actress and film producer-Naomi Watts must love diamonds—-and to be frank, every woman will love to have a piece of necklace made out of the precious stone. In the British film-Diana which came out last year, Naomi Watts was seen wearing an expensive Chopard diamond necklace while playing Diana, Princess of Wales and the 92-diamond necklace was provided by Swiss jewellery house, Chopard for the film…. In real life, Model/Former Beauty Queen-Menaye Donkor has also shared a photo of herself wearing the same Chopard diamond necklace wore by Naomi in the above film—and the necklace does not come cheap.(...) © Amankwa for Ghanacelebrities.com, 2014. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
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