{"id":421022,"date":"2017-09-22T08:07:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T08:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/22\/dont-use-music-for-propaganda-m-anifest\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T08:07:51","slug":"dont-use-music-for-propaganda-m-anifest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/22\/dont-use-music-for-propaganda-m-anifest\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t use music for propaganda \u2013 M.anifest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Friday, 22 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-22<\/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\/35463131.295.jpg\" alt=\"Manifest Rapp\" title=\"Manifest Rapp\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Award-winning Ghanaian rapper, Kwame Ametepee Tsikata<\/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\/1506067671_595_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Award-winning Ghanaian rapper, Kwame Ametepee Tsikata, popularly known in music industry as M.anifest, has urged Ghanaians to use music to tell the country\u2019s history and not for propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday, M.anifest said music should be used to tell only the truth and not lies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026not to use it as a propaganda piece, but as in artist being the heartbeat of culture and being able to express truth about today, and also things about today that will be useful in the future\u2026so that 50 years from now, when you listen to the music of today, it will give you clues as to what was happening with leadership, economy, social interactions between men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M.anifest made the remark when his views were sought on the Citi Breakfast Show in relation to that subject.<\/p>\n<p>Host of the show, Bernard Koku Avle, posited that instead of politicians dominating sources of Ghana\u2019s history, music could be adopted as a tool of telling the country\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p>But M.anifest said because some musicians are paid to skew facts, music cannot always be \u201chonest and truthful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can use Germany as an example and even some African countries in which sometimes people are commissioned essentially to tell a lie and it\u2019s very powerful using music,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><b>Debate of founder or founders of Ghana<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The comment by M.anifest comes on the back of an unending debate of who the true founding fathers of Ghana are. Whereas some believe that Nkrumah founded Ghana and must be celebrated as such, members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) think otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, others including J.B. Danquah helped in that vein hence must all be acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>In view of this, President Akufo-Addo has triggered the necessary Executive Instruments to designate August 4 as Founders Day and September 21 in every year as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: 50 --><\/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, 22 September 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-09-22 Award-winning Ghanaian rapper, Kwame Ametepee Tsikata &#13; Award-winning Ghanaian rapper, Kwame Ametepee Tsikata, popularly known in music industry as M.anifest, has urged Ghanaians to use music to tell the country\u2019s history and not for propaganda. 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