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  Album The Dusty Foot Philosopher
  Artistes K'Naan
  Language Somali, English
  Runtime 8:55
  Track # 18
  Video URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ubnt8HM2Fg
  Writer K'Naan Warsame
  Year 2005

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  Album Mugove
  Artistes Leonard Zhakata
  Language Shona
  Writer Leonard Karikoga Zhakata

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  Album Nsem pii
  Artistes Okomfour Kwaadee
  Language Twi
  Runtime 5:39
  Writer Jerry Anaba
  Year 2005

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  Album Obi ye obi
  Artistes Roro, Joe Frazier
  Language Twi
  Writer Roro, Joe Frazier
  Year 2005

Originally written on June 8, 2005

Big dreams - Sometimes I try to make them true ...Sounds on da ground and seens on the see-ins

I have always had great ambition, big dreams and difficult goals I set for myself. Maybe it stems from the heights people around me have reached or the joy that comes with accomplishment. These traits could have been embedded in my personality because of the environment I grew up in and other situations I found myself in. So when I heard the 'lyrics' of Wutah's 'Big dreams' the other day, I wondered if other people who may not have been academically, socially and financially fortunate like me also had 'big dreams'. If they did, how did they realise them?

Originally written on December 3, 2005

As if "Yefri Tuabodom" wasn't enough controversy for one summer, Sidney (Rap ninja) reminded everyone who the most controversial hiplife artiste was. His latest album gives us "Obia nye Obia", a song which preaches equality across the breadth of Ghana, in terms of respect, education, money and class. He argues that we all came from the earth and shall return to it, and so no one is above any one. In essence, everybody is nobody because a somebody is anybody/nobody after all. This statement doesn't sound too harmful until you hear a shoeshine boy telling his customer who works in an airconditioned office, "obia nyÉ› obia, wonyÉ› obia, me nso menyÉ› obia".

Originally written on September 11, 2005

...Sounds on da ground and see-ins on the scenes One Ghanaian song that has received a lot of airplay and publicity this summer is Yefri Tuabɔdɔm. This song, released by Nkasei narrates a true story where a teacher and his students, from a school in Tuabɔdɔm, a town in da Brong Ahafo Region, trek to Kumasi to attend a students' congress. Yefri Tuabɔdɔm is da song they sing, as jama, or their cheer, threatening to show Kumasi kids 'who is who'.

Tuabɔdɔm residents, instead of enjoying their new found popularity, with a whole hit song dedicated to them, are not happy with the song. The song puts them in a bad light, shows them as villagers who haven't seen coal tar, televisions, and fans before. Led by their queenmother, they called for the song to be banned from the airwaves, and mobbed MUSIGA executives when they travelled to Tuabɔdɔm to apologise. The source of the ire - Tuabɔdɔm has become a laughing stock, as Ghanaians all over are teasing them, left, right, center.

• View all from Lord Kenya
  Album Yesom sika
  Artistes Lord Kenya
  Language Twi
  Runtime 5:40
  Track # 4
  Writer Abraham Kojo Akpor
  Year 2001

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  Album Ahenfo Kyinie
  Artistes Daddy Lumba, Pat Thomas
  Language Twi
  Runtime 6:07
  Writer Charles Kojo Fosu
  Year 2005

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  Album Obia nye obia
  Artistes Sidney (Barima)
  Language Twi
  Runtime 6:24
  Track # 6
  Video URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4J70bIhgCM
  Writer Sidney Ofori
  Year 2005