{"id":1199551,"date":"2022-09-06T14:57:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/bbcs-peter-ogbu-okwoche-rates-m-anifest-the-best-lyricist-on-the-african-continent\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:57:57","slug":"bbcs-peter-ogbu-okwoche-rates-m-anifest-the-best-lyricist-on-the-african-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/bbcs-peter-ogbu-okwoche-rates-m-anifest-the-best-lyricist-on-the-african-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8217;s Peter Ogbu Okwoche Rates M.anifest The Best Lyricist On The African Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"449\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220906-141604.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot_20220906-141604\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Okwoche &#038; M.anifest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Poetic African rapper from Ghana, born Kwame Ametepee Tsikata\u00a0but professionally known as M.anifest has earned accolades from BBC\u2019s Peter Okwoche.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The well-known international broadcaster from NIGERIA believes the multiple award-winning rapper is the best lyricist on the African continent with carefully crafted songs.<\/p>\n<p>In his opinion, the rapper\u2019s five albums in his discography are thoughtfully crafted with content, having the high possibility of making an actively mammoth impact on the youth in Ghana and Africa at large.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHis five albums have been described as carefully and craftily worded poems to youth and personal development, and a social commentary on African and world affairs,\u201d<\/em> the broadcaster said.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview with the 2017 Ghana  Awards Best Rapper and Hip-Hop song of the year winner on Friday, September 2 on BBC World News, the popular news anchor inquired about what inspires his careful choice of content, and diction that runs through his songs.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor a few shows at the moment and when he dropped by our studio, I began by asking him what he uses as his muse to write?<\/em>\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n<p>In the rapper\u2019s words;<em> \u201cMy muse, It evolves over time but definitely, it\u2019s taking the world in. Whether it\u2019s through reading, listening watching, or speaking, that\u2019s constantly my muse. Sort of interacting with the world actively,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAnd also being an active knowledge seeker<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"1kTbBgRF308\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M.anifest on BBC World News - Speaks on beef, lyrics in African Music, and his music\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1kTbBgRF308?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Okwoche &#038; M.anifest Poetic African rapper from Ghana, born Kwame Ametepee Tsikata\u00a0but professionally known as M.anifest has earned accolades from BBC\u2019s Peter Okwoche. The well-known international broadcaster from NIGERIA believes the multiple award-winning rapper is the best lyricist on the African continent with carefully crafted songs. In his opinion, the rapper\u2019s five albums in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[461,25307,13866,25244,19634,25308,25309,3986,1591],"class_list":["post-1199551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-african","tag-bbcs","tag-continent","tag-lyricist","tag-m-anifest","tag-ogbu","tag-okwoche","tag-peter","tag-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199551","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=1199551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}