{"id":27311,"date":"2014-06-25T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=27311"},"modified":"2014-06-25T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T12:12:07","slug":"sarkodie-preaches-african-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=27311","title":{"rendered":"Sarkodie preaches African unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Africa is rising and gaining prominence in the world. The story of Africa as told to global audiences is gradually changing, even though there is a lot of room for improvement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ghana&#8217;s award winning Hip-hop artiste Sarkodie says even though Africa is rising one issue that still needs attention is unity. His concern is captured in the promotional video for Multichoice Africa&#8217;s Africa Rising campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Sarkodie, &#8220;Africa is rising up but I think we have one issue to solve, that is unity which we keep preaching. That&#8217;s the only way we can move forward. Now we are moving individually which makes it a bit hard for us to attain whatever we want to attain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He further explained that the unity of Africa would consolidate the gains of the continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;From the standing point as a musician, if we were to be one, my impact would have been much more greater than now. I would not be a Ghanaian artiste but an African artiste,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Watch African stars talking about #AfricaRising<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XmhhUD7mLus\" height=\"354\" width=\"630\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">MultiChoice&#8217;s Africa Rising, is a campaign focussed on creating shared value, designed to inspire Africans to become involved in community-based social investment projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The campaign is supported by Channel O Africa and has Tiwa Savage, Davido, Sarkodie, Micasa, Diamond and Lola Rae driving the campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">MultiChoice has released a music video featuring the Africa Rising ambassadors. The video, which was filmed in Ghana sees the ambassadors preaching the language of hope, positivity and African pride.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GDfm8pp89Uk\" height=\"354\" width=\"630\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By: Kojo Akoto Boateng\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is rising and gaining prominence in the world. The story of Africa as told to global audiences is gradually changing, even though there is a lot of room for improvement. Ghana&#8217;s award winning Hip-hop artiste Sarkodie says even though Africa is rising one issue that still needs attention is unity. His concern is captured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[35,232,6],"class_list":["post-27311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-lpg","tag-tema-shipyard","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}