{"id":1191657,"date":"2022-08-26T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/26\/king-promise-is-my-favourite-musician-because-he-is-my-birthday-twin-uk-high-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:12:00","slug":"king-promise-is-my-favourite-musician-because-he-is-my-birthday-twin-uk-high-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/26\/king-promise-is-my-favourite-musician-because-he-is-my-birthday-twin-uk-high-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"King Promise is my favourite musician because he is my birthday twin &#8211; UK High Commissioner"},"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=\"King Promise is my favourite musician because he is my birthday twin - UK High Commissioner\" title=\"King Promise is my favourite musician because he is my birthday twin - UK High Commissioner\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson says musician <em>King Promise<\/em> is her favourite artiste.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, although she loves Ghanaian music, she cannot help but choose King Promise as her number one because they share a birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the yet to be aired edition of <strong>The Probe <\/strong>on <strong>JoyNews<\/strong>, the High Commissioner said she enjoys the music of \u201cSarkodie, Stonebwoy, Gyakie, all of them. I have to say King Promise (is a favourite) because I recently discovered that he is my birthday twin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that, Mrs. Harriet\u00a0Thompson said \u201cI really enjoy the arts, the fashion, it\u2019s just so rich and energising\u2026I am terrible at words and names, but I am enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A huge honour to celebrate Homowo with the people of Gbese. Remembering the values and customs of those who went before, and the importance of working in unity to make hunger a thing of the past. Very special. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SDG2?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SDG2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/partnership?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#partnership<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yywtY8XX9h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/yywtY8XX9h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harriet Thompson (@HCThompson001) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HCThompson001\/status\/1558486417885601793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since her arrival in Ghana, Madam Thompson has not been one to shy away from engaging in some local activities, pushing the art and simply being in the  of locals.<\/p>\n<p>Recently she joined the Gas in the Greater Accra Region to celebrate Homowo. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CgWerGsDh5k\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>She has also journeyed to some parts of the Volta Region and the Northern parts of the country to interact with chiefs and the people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And their traditional attire is just gorgeous \ud83e\udd29 And we danced! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kIp56iJXCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/kIp56iJXCo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harriet Thompson (@HCThompson001) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HCThompson001\/status\/1559614411706343425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also celebrating the incredible fashion from this continent, past and present, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/V_and_A?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@V_and_A<\/a> Africa Fashion exhibition is gorgeous. And of course \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded is right in there! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Bp8Bk0tLE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2Bp8Bk0tLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harriet Thompson (@HCThompson001) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HCThompson001\/status\/1557353102625447942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This week is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/inclusion?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#inclusion<\/a> week at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKinGhana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@UKinGhana<\/a>. Today we celebrated the diversity across our team and learned more about each other\u2019s cultures, food etc. <\/p>\n<p>As a British woman, what to wear as \u201ctraditional attire\u201d was a challenge for me. I went for head to toe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marksandspencer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@marksandspencer<\/a> \ud83d\ude33\ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jjaKbTBpug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/jjaKbTBpug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harriet Thompson (@HCThompson001) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HCThompson001\/status\/1547267755988107265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just had my very first Ghanaian cooking lesson! I made akple with Honourable Dzifa Gomashie, MP for Ketu South \u2013 I learned it\u2019s all in the stirring! <\/p>\n<p>We then sat down with Queen Mothers to eat and talk about the issues facing the local community and how we tackle these together. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rj6QlTh1mY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/Rj6QlTh1mY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harriet Thompson (@HCThompson001) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HCThompson001\/status\/1544704189649002497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Probe airs on the <strong>JoyNews<\/strong> channel on Sundays at 9:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson says musician King Promise is her favourite artiste. According to her, although she loves Ghanaian music, she cannot help but choose King Promise as her number one because they share a birthday. Speaking on the yet to be aired edition of The Probe on JoyNews, the High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[159,6774,771,2158,126,1045,1022,11146],"class_list":["post-1191657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-birthday","tag-commissioner","tag-favourite","tag-high","tag-king","tag-musician","tag-promise","tag-twin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191657","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=1191657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}