{"id":433315,"date":"2011-05-31T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T10:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/31\/big-brother-africa-star-ras-wayo-loses-his-dreadlock\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T10:56:40","slug":"big-brother-africa-star-ras-wayo-loses-his-dreadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/31\/big-brother-africa-star-ras-wayo-loses-his-dreadlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Africa star, Ras Wayo loses his dreadlock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"88.8594958822\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameyawdebrah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ras-wayo.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[post-4982];player=img;\" title=\"ras wayo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4983\" title=\"ras wayo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/b2a821c2ayo-300x288.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>He first made the headlines when he represented Ghana on the hit reality TV series, Big Brother Africa. But Ras Wayo\u2019s short stay in the Big Africa Revolution house brought him more criticism than fame as he became Ghana\u2019s worst performing representative in the series after he was evicted in the first week of the competition. He also made some news with his attempt at music and he is back in the news as he was been spotted without the identity that most Ghanaians have come to know him by.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ardent Rastafarian and pan-African has cut off his trademark dreadlock in pursuit of his legal profession. And as always, there is never a dull moment with the deeply philosophical Wayo, who terms the act as a \u2018renunciation of his vow of a Nazarite\u2019. According to Ras Wayo, he cut his hair exactly 7 years after the date he took the vow. He explains: \u201cMy legal education is towards coming to\u00a0play my role to help\u00a0fight injustice on our planet, to speak for the masses. This is my call as a \u2018Nazarite and a true Rastaman\u2019.\u00a0There are a lot of injustices in the world, some have done their best and I want to play my role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in a weird twist of fate, he has had to forfeit his outward identity because according to him, the academia and the intellectual circles is very conservative and it is\u00a0very difficult being a\u00a0Nazarite (wearing dreadlocks), to go through the process. \u00a0Still strong in his beliefs, Wayo goes on to say that even though\u00a0some of classmates saw him as a stranger and not fit to sit with them, he has been taking it all in, staying truthful to the cause. \u201cI have come too far to allow some issues to come up to deny me from achieving my aim.\u00a0The Ghanaian society thinks that you are not fit to be around; \u00a0nobody wants to genuinely do anything with you;\u00a0and nobody wants to give his daughter to you as a wife, regardless of you been a good guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, he agrees that there is time for everything as King Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8. \u201cThere is a season, time and purpose for everything; a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck. Thus, as a mortal human being,\u00a0seeing my circumstances, it does not fall out of place to renounce my vow. God as part of\u00a0the requirement\u00a0of a Nazarite,\u00a0gave a window of renunciation of\u00a0the vow at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the renunciation also came at a time that is very significant to Ras Wayo who also shared his beliefs in the number seven: \u201cThe Bible in Genesis 2:2-3 reflects how God\u00a0blessed and sanctified the 7th day\u00a0as the day of rest after creation. Genesis 29:18 reflects how Jacob served his uncle Laban, his mother\u2019s brother for his wives. He said to Laban, \u2018\u00a0I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continues: \u201cAnd this is\u00a0where my greatest joy lies, renouncing my vow exactly on the day of the 7th year. I have gone through a lot of tribulation over the years for being a Nazarite\u00a0but realizing the need to get my academic grounding, in order\u00a0to come and help the course of the masses, I listened to some loved ones and earmarked my renunciation for the 7th year. So to all loved ones who spoke to me before the day of the 7th year,\u00a0I say to them, as\u00a0I kept saying to them of a day to come,\u00a0that I was waiting for this day (28th May, 2011)\u00a0as a man of Biblical principles, to renounce my vow. I have listened to them with much respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ras Wayo concluded that, hence for the task of helping the course of the masses ahead, he has done so for them. He said he could have however kept his vow and gone ahead to meet any academic mishap.\u00a0He also remarked \u2018I am still the one and\u00a0only Ras Wayo- \u2018The Revolution\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continued here: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He first made the headlines when he represented Ghana on the hit reality TV series, Big Brother Africa. <\/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-433315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Big Brother Africa star, Ras Wayo loses his dreadlock! - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/31\/big-brother-africa-star-ras-wayo-loses-his-dreadlock\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Big Brother Africa star, Ras Wayo loses his dreadlock! 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