{"id":274884,"date":"2011-01-25T16:34:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=49489"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:34:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T16:34:57","slug":"tu-face-family-storm-sierra-leone-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/25\/tu-face-family-storm-sierra-leone-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Tu Face, family, storm Sierra Leone wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_49490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49490\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-49490\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/25\/tu-face-family-storm-sierra-leone-wedding\/hycinth-idibia-and-wife\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49490\" title=\"Hycinth Idibia and wife\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Hycinth-Idibia-and-wife.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hycinth Idibia and wife <\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBy Alpha Rashid Jalloh<br \/>\nWedding ceremonies are characterizations of social life in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone but one wedding that drew crowds to the streets and has remained a a topic of household discussions is the one between Hassanatu Kanu, a popular Sierra Leonean star in the Nigerian film industry and Hycinth Idibia, younger brother of Two Face Idibia, international musical maestro.<br \/>\nThe wedding attracted top placed personalities in Sierra Leone and people from all strata of society.<br \/>\nOn December 17 all roads led to Joe Town, a village near Newton, 24 miles from the capital, Freetown.<br \/>\nThe bride, Hassanatu Kanu, whose movie name is Sana Kanu, is the daughter of Hassan Gbessay Kanu, who held several ministerial positions in Sierra Leone in the 80s.<br \/>\nAfter their traditional covenant, the couple on December 18 went to Sacred Heart Cathedral in the capital Freetown to solemnize their vow the Christian way.<br \/>\nThere, they also vowed to be together for better or for worse till death do part them. After the ceremony, crowds thronged the streets to set eyes on the bridegroom, whose marriage had the blessing of no less a person than His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma and apparently to set eyes on Two Face Idibia.<br \/>\nThe wedding ceremonies were subsequently followed by festivities that lasted for days. It was viewed by the village residents that the success of Hassanatu is success for the whole community.<br \/>\nBecause of the communalistic characterization of the Sierra Leonean society, individual achievements are sometimes interpreted as community achievements. This apparently evoked some passion in the people of Newton, Hassanatu\u2019s hometown.<br \/>\nThe union between Hassanatu a Sierra Leonean and Hycinth a Nigerian, was jokingly referred to by some people as a \u201cunion of Sierra Leone and Nigeria\u201d.<br \/>\nThe two met in Virginia, USA, and after a while, Hycinth decided to have Hassanatu, his new found love, in his home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alpha Rashid Jalloh Wedding ceremonies are characterizations of social life in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone but one wedding that drew crowds to the streets and has remained a a topic of household discussions is the one between Hassanatu Kanu, a popular Sierra Leonean star in the Nigerian film industry and Hycinth Idibia, younger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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