Blackstar Experience will target youth empowerment

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We will be responsible for strategic vision and framework, about branding and marketing initiatives, collaborative partnerships, investment mobilisation, job creation and youth empowerment, so you see, so long as youth empowerment and job creation come in, we have to liase and collaborate with the ministry of you development and empowerment

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University of Ghana partners with IAWL for gender equality model policy adaptation

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The University of Ghana and IAWL encourage all stakeholders in the legal and judicial sectors, as well as members of the university community and the public, to participate in this significant event. “Together, we can set the tone for creating a gender-responsive work environment in the legal profession and honor a legal luminary and pioneer African woman in law,” it concluded

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Blackstar Experience will include concert party competitions – Mahama

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“The Pan African Month will be a part of the Blackstar Experience. It will include street carnivals, film week, fashion festival, food fair, theoretical and drama performances, concert party competitions, and monthly domestic tourism destinations,” President Mahama said, stressing that they aim to position the Blackstar Experience as a uniquely Ghanaian tourism brand

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Stop the lies! Nigeria did not originate highlife

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Evidence that highlife, an evolved version of indigenous Ghanaian sounds Osibisaba and Adaha which emerged in the early 1920s, is of Ghanaian origin abound. Highlife got to Nigeria around 1937. In Professor John Collins’ book Highlife Time 3, he writes in Chapter 47: “Nigeria is now a major centre for highlife. However, the music was introduced to the country from Ghana in variety of ways. At first, through the diffusion of the kokomba highlife, and 1937 Nigerian tour of the Cape Coast Sugar Babies Orchestra. Later came the 1950s records EK Nyame and Onyina’s guitar band and most importantly the early 50s tours of the Ghanaian Tempos band

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AFROSON1C X announces co-curator music partnership with SXSW London

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According to Tom Russell, Founder of AFROSON1C X, commented, “SXSW is the world’s premier industry showcase festival and conference – a firm fixture in the music business calendar for many years. To be named a co-curator for its inaugural London edition is a significant moment for AFROSON1C X

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