{"id":111723,"date":"2015-04-27T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T12:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=111723"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T12:08:20","slug":"10-things-i-love-about-ghana-m-anifest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/04\/10-things-i-love-about-ghana-m-anifest\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things I love about Ghana &#8211; M.anifest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">M.anifest has outlined the ten (10) things he loves about Ghana. According to the award-winning rapper, when he hears\u00a0the news in local dialects it makes Shakespearean tragedies pale in comparison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He lists Ghanaian movie, Kente, grilled tilapia and\u00a0Shit\u0254 among the things he loves about Ghana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He is currently promoting the video for the song &#8216;forget dem&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TbZf7kKf-rU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>10 things M.anifest loves about Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. Shit\u0254 (Shitor)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the greatest Ghanaian inventions ever. Joy in a jar. Better than Sriracha, Tabasco and all of their cohorts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2. Ghanaian movies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just because they never end with part 1 or 2. At least 4 to 6 parts minimum. I rarely watch them but the trailers give me life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3. Big breakfast for champions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Breakfast can typically be waakye (rice and beans), red-red (gari &amp; beans), kenkey, and fufu for the starch die hards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4. When it rain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When it rains it\u2019s an unspoken holiday. Your workers might not show up. People coming to meetings on time is out of the question. Rain is our snowstorm, our earthquake, our great escape from work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">5. Kente<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I don\u2019t really love kente. I get tired of it being overused. I just love the fact that like Adinkra symbols it\u2019s everywhere in the world and we invented it. *beats on chest*What do you think?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">6. News read in local languages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We have a penchant for drama. When I hear the news in local dialects it makes Shakespearean tragedies pale in comparison. We don\u2019t read the news, we make stories out of news. It\u2019s inspiring for my music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">7. Grilled tilapia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How food so gawdly and tasty can be everywhere is a mysterious pleasure. Tilapia and banku over jollof, sue me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">8. Irreverent nicknames for people and places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We named a dance alkayida. We nickname our friends, Osama, Saddam, and ap3tw3 (a womaniser). And yes there is an area in Accra called Sodom and Gomorrah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">9. Everyone is into politics and football<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Apathy is not a luxury we can afford in these parts. Our voter turnout is incredibly high, and for good or for worse everyone believes they know the right way the country should be run.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10. Candle light dinner\u2026 sponsored by ECG<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So the term in Ghana for load shedding is dumsor. Nothing funny about it except the jokes we make on social media. Dumsor jokes are irresistible because of how badly we all feel the pain. So no there isn\u2019t a romantic angle to dumsor, but it\u2019s an indication of our wicked sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By: Kojo Akoto Boateng\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.anifest has outlined the ten (10) things he loves about Ghana. According to the award-winning rapper, when he hears\u00a0the news in local dialects it makes Shakespearean tragedies pale in comparison. 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