Ghanaian Journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni is alarmed over the command that Shatta Wale, Sarkodie and Stonebwoy have outside the shores of Ghana.
The renowned Investigative Journalist revealed in a post sighted by Zionfelix.net that some BBC Sports Journalists denied knowing these top three musicians in Ghana when they were hosted in Kumasi.
Meanwhile, they admitted to knowing Wizkid and Davido of Nigeria.
Manasseh indicated that the situation made him feel uncomfortable.
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He then asked a question about how good these Ghanaian musicians are.
Mr Awuni added that they need the numbers of Nigerians to get global recognition and gigs outside Ghana.
Read his full post below.
Last Saturday, I listened to BBC Sports. The broadcast was in the studios of YFM in Kumasi, Ghana. It featured BBC journalists and their counterpart sports journalists in Ghana, who acquitted themselves honourably. I felt proud listening to George Addo Jnr Nathaniel Attoh Citizen Attoh and others.
Getting to the end of the show, the host asked the BBC journalists about their favourite afrobeat musicians. While they were yet to name names, the host offered to help them.
He asked them whether they knew Wizkid.
They said yes.
Then he asked if they knew Davido.
They said yes.
Then the host switched to Ghana. He asked if they knew Shatta Wale.
They said no.
Sarkodie?
They said no.
Stonebwoy?
No.
I felt uncomfortable that our three top brands weren’t known outside our shores by people who were saying so on our airwaves while professing their knowledge of Nigerian artists.
Does that mean Sarkodie, Stonbwoy and Shatta Wale aren’t good enough?
Far from that.
It means the audience for any performer is the over 7 billion people across the world.
So if you fill a stadium in Ghana with a few thousand fans, you don’t have to “f.ck Nigerians.”
You need the Nigerians, the most populous English-speaking country in the sub-region, where you’re most likely to get your biggest gigs outside Ghana.
The world is your stage, not a small stadium in Ghana.
To them that have ears…
