2013 VGMA NOMINATIONS-MY TAKE

To start with, if I am asked to describe in one word what my take is on the work of the VGMA Board with regard to its 2013 Ghana Music Awards Nomination list, that one word would be “Laziness”, I would hasten to add that it goes further to expose the fact that the Board pays little or no attention to detail, and I dare say that has far reaching consequences.

For analysis, check out the Nomination list for Best HipHop Song of the year 2013;

See Me Suffer-EL ft Lil Shaker
Lies-Sarkodie ft Lil Shaker
SomeWayBi-Manifest
Marilyn Monroe-Dee Money ft Fuse ODG
Me Wo Dollor-Kwawkese ft EL

And off the top of my mind, I present to you these HipHop tunes for same period;

Yeda Wase-Obrafour, Edem, Tinny, Sarkodie, Kwawkese
Ohene-Edem ft Obrafour
Odee-Edem ft Trigmatic, X.O Senavoe
Elijah-Sarkodie ft Obrafour
Original-Sarkodie
Bounce-Sarkodie
No Short Cut To Heaven-Manifest ft Obrafour
Under And Over-Manifest
I No Dey See You Sef-Lil Shaker, Edem, Sarkodie, Joey B, Bra Kevin, Raquel
Thirty Two (32)-Lyrical Wanzam

...that is just to name a few, I have said in a tweet immediately after I saw the Nomination list for Best HipHop, that Manifest’s SomeWayBi is the only song HipHop enough to make it to that list, having listened to all those songs.

This shoddy work done to Best HipHop song category sadly runs through almost all the other nominations and I wonder what the members of the Board listen to in their private lives.

I conclude here by expressing my wonder as to how Da’Hammer of the Last2 might be feeling or would feel seeing what has been done to HipHop.

Tweeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The Cedi Wahala

Chaley, I have not come to tell you about the nuances of the Cedi (Ghana Cedi) problems against its major trading currencies. I say that because, I think it’s so obvious, and also that it has been said or discussed over and over again, more so because my first Degree in Economics is not even qualified to work at the Bank of Ghana, you see what I mean? So I won’t worry my head.

But look at this simple analogy; think of the Cedi or the amount of Cedis in circulation in the Economy as Men, and the amount of Dollars as Women. As much as the Men (Cedis) find need to make use of the Women (Dollars) for the purposes of dating, one night stand, marriage (import clearing services, Ghana’s four star hotel services, Ghana’s perpetual import dependency, respectively), they go after the Women. Bear in mind that the Women hardly/scarcely find need for the Men. All other things being constant (ceteris paribus) won’t the women begin to feel ‘Tweaaaaaaa’ (disdain) towards the men, and as a result attain a higher price (exchange rate) in the economy? That is the problem of our currency at the moment.

As it stands now, the Cedis (Men) should realise that they are not ‘co-equal’(in equilibrium) with/to the Dollars (Women) and hence, the need to undertake measures aimed at averting the downward trend/falling value as concretely as possible, otherwise, it is ‘Tweaaaaaaaaaaa’ (disdain) continua !

THANK YOU!

ONE BIG REASON

Am having a good laugh imagining  what went or is going through your mind upon seeing and reading the heading for this post, but I would fill you in right about now:

Simple but BIG reason if you ask me, reason for what? am talking about one BIG reason why I need to be making a lot of money, in other words, one reason why I need to get rich.

Seriously, I am unable to come up with that BIG reason but every indication points to a BIG reason. Maybe every other reason comes together to make that one BIG reason.

Maybe my PRESENT LIFE is the BIG reason; being broke on my birthday, being on LEAVE as a public servant and yet unable to go on a fun-trip, and even keeping up with the basic demands of a 21st Century life.

Chaley one thing is sure, and that is; I MUST DO SOMETHING. I hope am not alone in this dilemma, what do you guys think? or you think am worrying my head over nothing?

Please tell me something!

Troubleshuta

SO CALLED ‘WINNER TAKES ALL POLITICS’

I heard a tape of Arch-Bishop Duncan William on which as part of his sermon, he admonished or was admonishing the two big Political Parties in the country (Ghana) to find  a way around what he called ‘Winner Takes All Politics’.

He stated that he sees the practice as very dangerous to the sustainability of our Democracy, he explained by saying that the practice whereby a Political Party goes into election, loses out and has to stay four years in opposition amidst all the pain and hardship is untenable. He then in his admonishment called on the President, John Dramani Mahama, who was sitting in the congregation (I suppose), to think through the situation and find a way to bring others from across the political divide on board.

I wish to state that I appreciate the Arch-Bishop’s frustration because of how the Politicians have made the politicking to seem, but I dare say that the fact that we could agree or have agreed that it is a ‘Winner Takes All Politics’, is a wrong footing to take.

My take is that there should be nothing like a ‘Winner Takes All’ because there is not supposed to be a thing like that, the understanding that the terminology connotes cannot find space in our Constitution and should not be tolerated.

Think about it, what is ‘Winner Takes All’? Are Political Parties supposed to come to power to come take things? Are they not rather supposed to give? And what do they take or have to take? Are they not supposed to come provide or give good roads, good health, quality education, among others?

I think if our Political Parties do what is expected of them, that is, by thinking and working fervently to put the Ghanaian Economy on the right footing, irrespective of one’s political affiliation, one could do great in his business, profession or job. Political Power should not become a lucrative job-seeking avenue for political activists, it is supposed to be a service-giving avenue.

I hereby end by stating that the ‘Winner Takes All’ argument is a non-starter and must not be tolerated, Politicians are not supposed to come take anything, period!

Troubleshuta

THE HAND OF GOD

I once asked in a post for people to show me the hand of God in the affairs of Ghana, take a look at our Economic/Political history since 1957, we are where we are due to our actions or inactions, no hand of God anywhere, if you ever saw it, draw my attention.
Let me say though that if it is about going to heaven, i can understand, we should be thinking instead of sponsoring Pastors to Israel to go offer prayers to God.

Troubleshuta

A LOVE QUESTION (MASCULINIST)

A LOVE QUESTION (MASCULINIST)

It came to a point in my life where I concluded that ‘loving a woman’ is ‘slavery’. I felt so strong about this assertion to the point that I even espoused it to the lady I was ‘seeing’ at the time. I went like, ‘’…loving a woman is synonymous to ‘slavery’ in that you are ‘forced’ to do what you would ordinarily not do’’, I then made it clear I had that much love for her.

When you enter into a relationship with a woman you consider very beautiful; nice smile, tasteful figure, among others, at least according to your eyes, you would develop the kind of ‘slave’ mentality I mentioned earlier. I hope you concur.

So you begin to live the love-life, she is the only one, and ‘ceteris paribus’ you are the only one. You begin/continue to act your love for this woman, and from my experience, love is not blind, it is just a ‘spectacle’ or ‘glasses’ that helps you to see differently, most often beautifully.

Do not get me wrong, this write-up is not meant to show you how to love but rather to ask you a love question;

At what point could you say you have loved enough or have had enough of a particular love relationship and hence bring to an end the enjoyment in the ‘slavery’ of LOVE by calling it all off?

Troubleshuta