{"id":1063985,"date":"2022-04-22T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/gh-musicians-deserve-diplomatic-passports-to-make-their-work-easier-sarkodie-tells-govt\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:07:29","slug":"gh-musicians-deserve-diplomatic-passports-to-make-their-work-easier-sarkodie-tells-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/gh-musicians-deserve-diplomatic-passports-to-make-their-work-easier-sarkodie-tells-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"GH musicians deserve diplomatic passports to make their work easier \u2013 Sarkodie tells gov\u2019t \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sarkodie, the Ghanaian rap legend, thinks diplomatic passports would allow Ghanaian and African artistes to better represent their nations.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>To further promote their country, Sarkcess  owner believes diplomatic passports can assist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can move quickly and shine a light on our country,\u201d said the BET Awardee if such an identification card is readily \u201caccessible\u201d to artists across the continent. \u201cIt will assist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made these remarks before the Accra in Paris concert on April 23.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>In addition, he and his colleagues should be able to tell the world what their nations have to offer.<\/p>\n<p>As an ambassador for Ghana, I have been on the go a lot. So I shouldn\u2019t have any problems spreading my own nation. That way I may easily roam anywhere and promote Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Aspiring \u201cArtiste of the Decade\u201d for the Vodafone Ghana  Awards, hoped this problem would be resolved soon to help promote Ghana internationally.<\/p>\n<p>The artists in Africa will benefit from this. It is a sort of international identification paper issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic passports are often provided to government officials and their families attending congresses and seminars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">African artistes deserve to have diplomatic passports  \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarkodie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sarkodie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t2fFEVJJep\">pic.twitter.com\/t2fFEVJJep<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #SimplyTheBest!! (@Starr1035Fm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Starr1035Fm\/status\/1517444181039403008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Sarkodie, the Ghanaian rap legend, thinks diplomatic passports would allow Ghanaian and African artistes to better represent their nations. To further promote their country, Sarkcess owner believes diplomatic passports can assist. \u201cWe can move quickly and shine a light on our country,\u201d said the BET Awardee if such an identification card is readily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2363,7034,5872,225,8313,8298,8312,700,2980],"class_list":["post-1063985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-deserve","tag-diplomatic","tag-easier","tag-govt","tag-musicians","tag-passports","tag-sarkodie","tag-tells","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}