{"id":1129940,"date":"2022-06-21T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/21\/build-a-statue-to-honor-agya-koo-kwaku-manu-to-govt\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T15:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:19:33","slug":"build-a-statue-to-honor-agya-koo-kwaku-manu-to-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/21\/build-a-statue-to-honor-agya-koo-kwaku-manu-to-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Build a statue to honor Agya Koo \u2013 Kwaku Manu to gov&#8217;t \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>Kwaku Manu, a popular and combative Kumawood actor, has praised Agya Koo for salvaging Ghana\u2019s film industry.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Agya Koo, a renowned Ghanaian actor and comedian, helped the local film industry thrive. His participation is appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Kwaku Manu said, \u201cWithout his comedic talent, Ghana wouldn\u2019t have a movie industry.\u201d His Excellency John Agyekum Kuffour, then Ghana\u2019s president, recognized his exceptional work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsumers won\u2019t purchase your movie if Agya Koo isn\u2019t in it. Agya Koo needs a monument in Ghana for taking Ghana to international platforms.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI saw him as a youngster and learned from him before joining Kumawood. He\u2019s a legend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agya Koo is an actor, singer, and comedian who worked as a shoemaker growing up was discovered on a Ghanaian comedy show (Key Soap Concert) on GTV at the National Theater in Accra, where he worked as a comedian warming up the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"4YN2H1L6Y5A\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Build Statue For Agya Koo, He Deserves It - Kwaku Manu Fires On Agya Koo Comeback\ud83d\udd25\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4YN2H1L6Y5A?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Kwaku Manu, a popular and combative Kumawood actor, has praised Agya Koo for salvaging Ghana\u2019s film industry. Agya Koo, a renowned Ghanaian actor and comedian, helped the local film industry thrive. His participation is appreciated. Kwaku Manu said, \u201cWithout his comedic talent, Ghana wouldn\u2019t have a movie industry.\u201d His Excellency John Agyekum Kuffour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1129942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7595,2581,225,4015,9669,2396,8710,3423],"class_list":["post-1129940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-agya","tag-build","tag-govt","tag-honor","tag-koo","tag-kwaku","tag-manu","tag-statue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129940","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=1129940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}