Multiple award-winning Ghanaian rapper, Michael Owusu Addo, well known as Sarkodie and the Dancehall King, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr., also known as Shatta Wale have recently been nominated for the African Artiste of the year at the upcoming Urban Awards.
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The Urban Awards which aims at awarding musicians worldwide for their enormous contribution to the music society in their various countries.
This year’s edition is scheduled for 20th September in London, UK.
Sarkodie and Shatta Wale has bagged a nomination as the African Artiste of the year. They will be competing with Davido, Rema, Fally Ipupa, Buna Boy, Tiwa Savage, Diamond Platnumz, Ola Kira, Falz, Vanessa Mdee, Joey Boy, Darina Victry and Wizkid.
In other news, outspoken Ghanaian actress, Lydia Forson has lamented how government abandons old projects commissioned by their predecessors to start new ones.
In Ghana, it has been a norm in politics that the ruling government abandons projects commissioned by the outgone government to begin their own projects.
This practice has done more harm to the country’s economy since the old projects which the outgone government spent huge sums of money to complete have been abandoned in the bushes as the ruling government procure more funds to start new projects.
It is at the back of this that Lydia Forson is saying that it is very disheartening for old projects to be abandoned by the government in their quest to fulfill their own promises.