{"id":273095,"date":"2011-01-08T01:25:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T01:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=45428"},"modified":"2011-01-08T01:25:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T01:25:27","slug":"rafik-salam-waaaaaaa-chats-up-bola-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/08\/rafik-salam-waaaaaaa-chats-up-bola-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafik Salam Waaaaaaa chats up Bola Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_45429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45429\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-45429\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/08\/rafik-salam-waaaaaaa-chats-up-bola-ray\/rafik-salam\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45429\" title=\"Rafik Salam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Rafik-Salam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafik Salam, Waaaaaaaa<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nArguably Joy FM\u2019s most celebrated regional correspondent presently, Rafik Salam, whose <em>sign-off<\/em> tune, Waaaaaaaaaa, was guest of iconic MC, Bola Ray, on Joy Drive Time.<br \/>\nThe  man who has not only a unique voice but a hilariously fantastic  intonation, reports from the Upper West Region \u2013 mostly the regional  capital Wa, no! Waaaaaaaa, as Rafik usually puts it.<br \/>\nA story  filed from the region by Rafik is incomplete without the signing off  statement \u201cfor Joy news, Rafik Salam, Waaaaa.\u201d It was all laughter,  smiles and giggles when Rafik entered the studios for a chat with Bola  Ray.<br \/>\nHe mocked at &#8216;news&#8217; that he was moving to the BBC as &#8216;pleasant rumour.&#8217;<br \/>\nWhen  a text message was read to him sent by a lady listener who wants to go  out for lunch with Rafik, he paused for a while and said he will think  about.<br \/>\nHis high sense of humour is unmistaken and he kept everybody laughing.<br \/>\nAsked  whether he will mind which part of the country his wife comes from,  Rafik Salam said not at all because his being born a Wala is a birth  accident. \u201cI could have been born a British, an Ewe or an Akan.\u201d<br \/>\nRafik  Salam said his intonation must have been influenced by his early  studies of the Qur\u2019an which he said he had committed about 60 verses of  the Holy Book to memory by age 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguably Joy FM\u2019s most celebrated regional correspondent presently, Rafik Salam, whose sign-off tune, Waaaaaaaaaa, was guest of iconic MC, Bola Ray, on Joy Drive Time. 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