{"id":239586,"date":"2015-01-05T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/change-the-national-anthem-of-ghana-akomea\/"},"modified":"2015-01-05T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T11:25:00","slug":"change-the-national-anthem-of-ghana-akomea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/01\/05\/change-the-national-anthem-of-ghana-akomea\/","title":{"rendered":"Change the national anthem of Ghana &#8211; Akomea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday, 5 January 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/01\/8a5a88897136.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nana Akomea Npp\" title=\"Nana Akomea Npp\" width=\"295\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> The communications director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akomea wants the national anthem of Ghana changed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the main opposition party\u2019s stalwart, Dr Ephraim Amu\u2019s patriotic song &#8211; \u201cYen ara asaase ni\u201d &#8211; which means \u201cThis land is our own\u201d must replace the age-old God Bless Our Homeland Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Akomea said the patriotic song which is seen in some quarters as the de facto national anthem of the oil-producing country, \u201chas grown on its own\u201d and easily identifies with Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The former MP for Okaikwei South told Accra-based Joy FM the popular Twi song must be translated into \u201cother languages just like the South African anthem\u201d so that everyone can sing in their own dialect.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s current anthem \u201cGod Bless Our Homeland Ghana\u201d was originally written and composed by Philip Gbeho and adopted in 1957.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 4 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> General News of Monday, 5 January 2015 Source: Starrfmonline.com The communications director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akomea wants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}