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You can’t fight foreign music – Shatta Wale to #PlayGhana initiators
Popular Ghanaian dancehall artist, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, widely known as Shatta Wale has taken to social media to make mockery of the #PlayGhana campaign which seeks to promote and prioritize the consumption of Ghanaian music over international tunes.
It will be recalled that the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture in collaboration with the Creative Arts Agency and some stakeholders of the Ghanaian music industry on Thursday, December 14, 2023 launched the #PlayGhana initiative.
This initiative aims to promote Ghanaian music across the country ahead of the Christmas ‘detty December’ activities where there is an influx of diasporans spending their holidays in Ghana.
However, Shatta in an X (formally Twitter) post on Sunday December 17, 2023 said, creatives cannot fight against the influx of foreign music in the country. The ‘Melissa’ hitmaker believes that 10% of foreign music will overshadow the whole of Ghana.
Shatta further added that, the enmity among Ghanaian crooners is what is hindering the progress of the music industry.
“I just woke up to tell you, you can’t fight foreign music. A country with so much jealousy when it’s not them in the frontline,” he wrote.