Personality’’ at the Ghana Peace Awards. Groupe Ideal also won the Corporate Organization for Peace at the same event.

The Ghana Peace Awards is a private initiative aimed at giving recognition to individuals and entities who amongst others have or are advocating peace. It is to honor, celebrate, recognize, appreciate and inspire individuals and institutions who have contributed their quota to maintain peace in the country.

In the run- up to 2016 elections, Dr.Nii Kotei Dzani was part of group of high profile Ghanaians who pledged their commitment to peace before, during and after the elections by signing and endorsing the Ghana + Peace campaign’s symbolic calabash.

This was against the framework that businesses can only thrive in a peaceful environment, therefore the need for peace cannot be underrated.

Dr. Kotei Dzani is also known for his great works in philanthropy, the acquisition of businesses and contribution to society in diverse ways.

The President of Groupe Ideal, a company with over 13 subsidiaries, was chosen for his outstanding contribution to the growth of business in Ghana.

According to the scheme, he has demonstrated leadership in championing and inspiring individual business leaders and businesses to work together with society, to the mutual benefit of both.

‘’His contagious leadership ability sees and appreciates talents. This ignite confidence in others and brings team-members together which has innovative actions. Thus, we acknowledge your impact of responsible business practices in advancing the values of developments and job creation in Ghana, Africa and the world at large. The organizer s said.’’

Speaking on the award, the Managing Director for Ideal Finance Limited ,Mr. Alex Dodoo who picked the award on his behalf said, ‘’this award comes as no surprise at all. Dr. Kotei Dzani is compassionate. Having built a conglomerate like Groupe Ideal with over 13 subsidiaries, which employs over 800 people, directly helps reduce unemployment rate in the country is indeed laudable.

Upon receiving the award, Dr Nii Kotei Dzani said, I am humbled. ‘’I owe it all to my hardworking institutional heads who through their diverse experiences make the dream happen.’

This adds to the many awards he has won since he started building his business empire in 2009. Dr. Kotei Dzani has been honored by a number of institutions both locally and internationally for his continues contribution towards nation building.

The maiden edition of the Ghana Peace Awards was in October, 2016.

This years’ was themed’ ‘’A PEACEFUL GHANA; ONE PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER’’

“The night awarded those who have given exemplary contributions to peace and progress that have tirelessly made a visible and tangible difference which has touched the hearts of many both nationally and on the world stage.

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Credit: Groupe Ideal

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Now one might wonder what would compel a fast-rising Afropop artiste known in real life as Dela Woollams to be tagged with this hilarious name, Kweku Bizkit.

Speaking to Kweku Bizkit, he said he had received lots of criticisms from some industry players due to the bizarre ripple effects his name sends across.

But the young upcoming musician insists his fans love it and he feels comfortable with the love and attention he gets from them.

He goes on to say he loves the smiles and giggles that spread across faces of his fans anytime his name is mentioned. That is the main idea behind his name, he recalled.

According to Kweku, the difference between success and failure is the variance between originality and gimmicks. This is to re-emphasize the view that Kweku otherwise known as “Korku” in indigene Ewe was a Gold Coast homegrown from a humble Ewe background from the country.

Racing back to his past, he recalled that he pictured his background as a normal average boy in the “Gold-Coast” era where biscuits were then entrenching into the Ghanaian system at the time and were delicacies for kids back in the day for which they would do anything for.

Biscuits mostly known as cookies in the west, were foreign based savories that delighted many kids at that time of “Rawlings’ regime” when he was growing up.

Doesn’t this Ghanaian feelingness of a Kweku, a Kwame or a Nii munching on a biscuit merge the multicultural diversity between a typical homegrown Ghanaian boy and a western boy probably living in New York or Chicago doing same at the time?

Anybody should be able to relate to that I guess. From the young to the old, biscuits are a delicacy to eat and give relief to many.

Relating that to music, Kweku Bizkit elaborated that his music was supposed to cross borders regardless of tribe, country or language and serve as a delight and relief to his fans and music lovers all across the world provided they could relate to it.

He said some groups of people had misunderstood his brand but he stood for the fact that music wasn’t supposed to be violent and X-rated every time in order to sell but must rather send humor and smiles from one face to another in order to shape lives and value to the listener.

Kweku Bizkit who also doubles his skill in music and song writing with working as a Sales and Marketing Executive at Citi 97.3 FM, has an eccentric style of music with a strong influence from the Ewe, pidgin and Patois. Its original Ghanaian, Ewe flavour mixed with the sub-Saharan pidgin slang accompanied with splendid Caribbean attitude has carved for itself, an Afro-pop and Dancehall fusion. His Afrocentric style gives his music a touch that is not limited to Ghana but cuts across nations.

Kweku Bizkit unleashes “Wangolo”, another single today, 25^th July, “Wangolo”, an Afropop mid-tempo tune which was produced by Timz Beat and mixed by Magnom has already re-emphasized his style of music. This new single is as trendy as most of Kweku’s songs as it’s a party song urging listeners to shake their “Wangolo”. Kweku Bizkit says seeing people party and have a good time is his personal joy thus the motivation for the song.

Bizkit has a couple of other singles to his credit like; “Shockin’ Wine”, “Step”, “Alolena”, “Stolen Heart” among others. He again proved his dexterity and alignment to the Caribbean genre when he dropped “Follow Follow” a couple of months ago which featured Scata Bada was produced by engineer extraordinaire, Magnom.

Would Kweku Bizkit be just another addition to the fast stacking pile of Afro Dancehall musicians erupting in GH or does he actually have what it takes to propel this genre to the outside world?

Like him on www.facebook/kwekubizkit or follow him on his Twitter handle; www.twitter/kwekubizkit to be the first to listen to “Wangolo”.

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