{"id":438210,"date":"2017-11-17T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/17\/sarkodies-team-attacked-at-one-africa-music-festivalreason-for-not-performing\/"},"modified":"2017-11-17T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:00:33","slug":"sarkodies-team-attacked-at-one-africa-music-festivalreason-for-not-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/17\/sarkodies-team-attacked-at-one-africa-music-festivalreason-for-not-performing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkodie\u2019s team attacked at One Africa Music Festival\u2026reason for not performing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie arrived in Dubai on Wednesday, November 15 for the One African Concert.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from two Ghanaian journalists, Nkonkonsa and George Britton, the award winning artiste who was the only Ghanaian artiste billed to perform at the One Africa Music Festival in Dubai, did not perform.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that during the show, host of the event, Banky W mentioned Sarkodie\u2019s name as the next artiste to perform but the host later came back to announce Nigeria artiste Davido as the next act after someone whispered into his hears.<\/p>\n<p>One of the journalist who was with Sarkodie\u2019s team at the backstage reported that one of Davido\u2019s guys attacked Sarkodie\u2019s bodyguard, Black Nana by pushing him to the floor to allow Davido perform.<\/p>\n<p>This action to the journalist generated an ugly scene at the backstage where blows and slaps were exchanged before Dubai police came to arrest certain individuals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8555\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-17-at-8.08.38-AM.png\"   alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"173\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cSarkodie and his team arrived in Dubai on Wednesday morning November 15 and attended the pre-event party on Wednesday evening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe went for sound check ahead of the concert on Thursday evening and arrived at venue on time ready to rock the stage but for some reason, the Ghanaian Rapper never mounted the stage.\u00a0<\/em><em>During the concert, host of the show Banky W announced Sarkodie as the next act on stage after Tekno\u2019s\u00a0performance and DJ Mensah mounted the stage but Banky W came back to announce Davido\u2019s name after someone whisppered to him on stage that Davido was next.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"827\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bbj5YakBAha\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=7&amp;wp=589#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A3020.6400000000003%7D\" width=\"300\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The show started at about 9:30pm and ended at about 2:45am and all the artistes numbering about 20 from different African countries (Kenya, Angola, South Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzanian, Nigeria etc) performed with the exception of Ghana\u2019s Sarkodie.<\/p>\n<p>This left Ghanaians and Sarkodie\u2019s fans who paid to come watch their star perform, very angry and obviously disappointed but organisers of the event haven\u2019t said a word yet about the unfortunate incident.<br \/>Stay glued to this page for more from Dubai.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Top African artistes who performed at the event included include 2face Idibia, Wizkid, Davido, Teckno, Diamond, Victoria Kimani, Cassper Nyovest, Tiwa Savage, Flavour, Emma Nyra and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkodie then felt turn of events were disrespectful. This happens to be the third time he has been disrespected in the same manner by the Nigerian artistes.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkodie wrote on twitter:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-115593\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sarkodie-one-africa-fest-in-dubai.jpg\"   alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"370\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script async defer src=\"http:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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>Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie arrived in Dubai on Wednesday, November 15 for the One African Concert. 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