• View all from Eedris Abdulkareem
  Artistes Eedris Abdulkareem
  Album Jaga jaga
  Year 2004
  Writer Eedris Turayo Abdulkareem Ajenifuja
  Language English
  Track # 8
  Runtime 4:34
  Video URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arzn4kBOxJI

• View all from Eedris Abdulkareem
  Artistes Eedris Abdulkareem
  Album Jaga jaga
  Year 2004
  Writer Eedris Turayo Abdulkareem Ajenifuja
  Language English
  Track # 3
  Runtime 5:24
  Video URL http://youtube.com/watch?v=kZ7DHw_dbuM

• View all from Lagbaja
  Artistes Lagbaja
  Album Ikira
  Year 1996
  Writer Bisade Ologunde
  Language English, Yoruba

• View all from Okomfour Kwaadee
  Artistes Okomfour Kwaadee
  Album Nsem pii
  Year 2006
  Writer Jerry Anaba
  Language Twi
  Runtime 5:27

...Sounds on da ground and seens on the see-ins It's that time of year again; first-year students are thronging the campuses of Tech (KNUST), Legon, UCC, etc while last-year senior secondary students have just completed their SSCE exams. Inevitably, some students would fail to make the cut to enter the tertiary institutions and this realisation hit me when I was listening to Okomfo Kwaadee's 'P1', a song on his latest album, 'Nsem pii'. P1 stands for 'primary 1' or the very first year in elementary school. Take a moment to think about the number of youth in Ghana who will be unable to go to school because they are unable to pay. And picture what the idle minds and hands are doing with their time.

• View all from Gospel Explosion
  Artistes Gospel Explosion
  Album Yi n'aye
  Year 2006
  Writer Gospel Explosion (IHCF-KNUST)
  Language Twi

• View all from Bacteria
  Artistes Bacteria
  Album Maame
  Writer Walter Mawul Gli
  Language Twi
  Runtime 5:20

...Sounds on da ground and seens on the see-ins Almost every month, we hear about workers' strikes, people calling for increased wages, better terms of service, etc, etc. These calls come from the brains that make our economies tick - the doctors, the lecturers, the civil servants, etc. Granted, the cost of living in Ghana is high and the wages of the middle-class do not seem to allow for a good standard of living. However, what about the Ghanaians who have no jobs? And those who have jobs which do not necessarily exercise their brains but keep their hands busy? Have we stopped to think about what our idle minds are up to these days? This realization hit me when I was listening to Okomfo Kwaadee's 'Efie nipa' recently. It shouldn't surprise you to hear the lyrics of the voice of the streets which is increasingly becoming Okomfo Kwaadee's tag.

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 'Yɛfri 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. Yɛfri 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.