{"id":1174255,"date":"2022-08-11T12:43:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/actor-waakyes-one-week-observation-slated-for-august-26-starr-fm\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T12:43:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:43:32","slug":"actor-waakyes-one-week-observation-slated-for-august-26-starr-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/actor-waakyes-one-week-observation-slated-for-august-26-starr-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Waakye\u2019s one-week observation slated for August 26 \u2014 Starr Fm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A one-week observation will be held in memory of late veteran actor, Prince Yawson, popularly known as Waakye on Friday, August 26, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The one-time hilarious actor died on August 2 due to an alleged stroke illness. He was 65.<\/p>\n<p>The one-week observation will be held at the Accra Tourism Information Centre opposite Afrikiko.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to be attended by major names in the Ghanaian movie industry and other showbiz stakeholders.<br \/>\u201cThe family has other funerals to take care of which is why they chose 26th August,\u201d Bob Smith Jnr reportedly explained the date on Accra-based TV XYZ.<\/p>\n<p>Waakye was one of the household names from the 90s who graced TV screens.<\/p>\n<p>He brought happiness to the Ghanaian home via his performances on TV Theatres and Akan Dramas.<\/p>\n<p>Known for movie roles such as Diabolo and Babina, he was a talent that won\u2019t be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Later in his career, he was ordained Reverend Minister, years after giving his life to serving Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starrfm.com.gh\/2022\/08\/actor-waakyes-one-week-observation-slated-for-august-26\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-week observation will be held in memory of late veteran actor, Prince Yawson, popularly known as Waakye on Friday, August 26, 2022. The one-time hilarious actor died on August 2 due to an alleged stroke illness. He was 65. The one-week observation will be held at the Accra Tourism Information Centre opposite Afrikiko. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1174257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[763,9255,17809,12200,3512,357,22099],"class_list":["post-1174255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-august","tag-observation","tag-oneweek","tag-slated","tag-starr","tag-waakyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174255","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=1174255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}