{"id":1165621,"date":"2022-07-09T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/09\/elminas-paramount-chief-dances-to-buga-in-his-palanquin-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-09T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T20:57:07","slug":"elminas-paramount-chief-dances-to-buga-in-his-palanquin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/09\/elminas-paramount-chief-dances-to-buga-in-his-palanquin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmina&#8217;s paramount chief dances to &#8216;Buga&#8217; in his palanquin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Elmina's paramount chief dances to 'Buga' in his palanquin\" title=\"Elmina's paramount chief dances to 'Buga' in his palanquin\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>When Nigeria\u2019s Kizz Daniel released his popular hit \u2018Buga\u2019 in May 2022, it took the continent by storm.<\/p>\n<p>On Instagram, TikTok and other social media platforms, \u2018Buga\u2019 has been trending; with many creating exciting dance videos for it.<\/p>\n<p>Months later, the song is still making waves and even the President of Liberia, George Manneh Oppong Weah joined the challenge in June.<\/p>\n<p>The latest person to hop on the trend is the Paramount Chief of Elimina, Nana Kodwo Conduah VI.<\/p>\n<p>In a video shared on social media, the chief was seen dancing to Buga in his palanquin during the Bakatue durbar.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WhatsApp-Video-2022-07-09-at-7.18.49-PM.mp4\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The public cheered on the chief while he displayed his dancing skills.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this is the first time the people of Elmina have celebrated Bakatue, a festival marked every first week in July,\u00a0since the Covid-19 pandemic struck.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-38.png\" alt=\"Elmina's paramount chief dances to 'Buga' in his palanquin\" class=\"wp-image-10032126855\"   title=\"Elmina's paramount chief dances to 'Buga' in his palanquin\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The people commenced the celebration of the Edina Bakatue on Tuesday, July 6, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The festival which has been observed by the residents of Edina for more than 150years is said to summon Nana Benya, the god of the lagoon as a protector of the state, and various ancestors for bumper harvests during the farming and fishing seasons.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-39.png\" alt=\"Elmina's paramount chief dances to 'Buga' in his palanquin\" class=\"wp-image-10032126856\"   title=\"Elmina's paramount chief dances to 'Buga' in his palanquin\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>This year\u2019s celebration is on the theme: \u2018Eat made in Ghana, wear made in Ghana.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/elminas-paramount-chief-dances-to-buga-in-his-palanquin\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nigeria\u2019s Kizz Daniel released his popular hit \u2018Buga\u2019 in May 2022, it took the continent by storm. On Instagram, TikTok and other social media platforms, \u2018Buga\u2019 has been trending; with many creating exciting dance videos for it. Months later, the song is still making waves and even the President of Liberia, George Manneh Oppong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12729,231,8564,20121,20122,4161],"class_list":["post-1165621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-buga","tag-chief","tag-dances","tag-elminas","tag-palanquin","tag-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165621","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=1165621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}