{"id":418649,"date":"2017-09-15T09:04:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/15\/creative-arts-culture-nerve-centres-of-ghanas-economy-akofa-edjeani\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T09:04:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:04:47","slug":"creative-arts-culture-nerve-centres-of-ghanas-economy-akofa-edjeani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/15\/creative-arts-culture-nerve-centres-of-ghanas-economy-akofa-edjeani\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative arts, culture nerve centres of Ghana\u2019s economy &#8211; Akofa Edjeani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Friday, 15 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-09-15<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/15317405.295.jpg\" alt=\"Akofa Edjeani Smile\" title=\"Akofa Edjeani Smile\" width=\"295\" height=\"202\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Veteran actress Akofa Edjeani Asiedu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385179598\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385179598\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1505466287_497_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Veteran actress Akofa Edjeani Asiedu has observed that Ghana\u2019s movie industry is dying because structures are not in place to aid its growth.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Daybreak Hitz with KMJ, the actress urged the government to pay attention to arts and culture because they are the nerve centre of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s dying now because we are not doing the right things. There are no structures, thankfully we have the bill passed as an act but it is not even being implemented, is just as if we don\u2019t have the policy, so we need to put the right pressure on the people,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The actress, who has been appointed National Coordinator for the Pan African Federation of Film Makers Forum, thinks \u201cthe Ministers and government need to understand why we need culture and arts; why it has to take priority and why it is so prominent because it is the nerve centre of your economy [because] it is the foundation that you build your country on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to her, \u201cIf you have a bad foundation, you are going to collapse and that is what is happening, so if they understand, then we don\u2019t have to force them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Yvonne Nelson\u2019s campaign:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Reacting to actress Yvonne Nelson\u2019s campaign to solicit signatures from industry persons to petition the government to help revive the movie industry, Akofa asserted that signing petitions and demonstrations will not save the dying movie industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYvonne means well, it\u2019s the frustration that we are all going through. I don\u2019t see how just signing signatures is going to help anything because the president can have all that and still put it under the stack of papers that he has but when they understand why this industry needs to be put at its right place, you won\u2019t need all these signatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Nelson started a campaign with the sole aim of saving the movie industry after her recent spat on social media attacking her colleagues for being obsessed with only slaying it on the red carpet while the movie industry is dying.<\/p>\n<p>Akofa Edjeani Asiedu concluded that, \u201cWhat we need to do is to engage the authorities, sit one-on-one with them and have a stakeholders meeting and if they don\u2019t understand why, we let them understand, we need to dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 62 updated by: 62 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Friday, 15 September 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-09-15 Veteran actress Akofa Edjeani Asiedu &#13; Veteran actress Akofa Edjeani Asiedu has observed that Ghana\u2019s movie industry is dying because structures are not in place to aid its growth. 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