{"id":1207655,"date":"2022-09-20T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/20\/slavery-brought-more-good-than-harm-to-africans-kofi-jamar\/"},"modified":"2022-09-20T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T09:58:08","slug":"slavery-brought-more-good-than-harm-to-africans-kofi-jamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/20\/slavery-brought-more-good-than-harm-to-africans-kofi-jamar\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery brought more good than harm to Africans \u2014 Kofi Jamar \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<h3><strong>Derrick Osei Kuffour Prempeh, better known by his stage name Kofi Jamar, is a singer from Ghana who, unlike other Africans, values slavery and colonialism more highly than the freedom and autonomy that modern Africa provides its citizens.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The \u201cEkorso\u201d singer claims that Africans would not have profited from things like music \u2014 which he claims helped pave the way for the likes of Michael Jackson, Kanye West, LeBron James, and others \u2014 if not for slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he knew many in Ghana and throughout Africa would be upset by his statement, he implied that music would not have developed in Africa without the introduction of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0I\u2019m not a rapper but I can murder your favourite rapper in seconds- Kofi Jamar<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>In a tweet from today, September 19 that has since been removed, he elaborated on how Africans had gained more education and made a significant global influence as a result of forced migration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople will kill me for this, but our ancestors really knew what they were doing when they sold Most Africans into slavery, The is a great impact on the world as we see today. I swear we wouldn\u2019t have had the likes of the Blues, RnB , Rock and Roll, Rap , Hiphop .<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEtc . Blacks have benefited and impacted the world a lot in so many ways due to that migration. Shhh we wouldn\u2019t have had the likes of Jay z, Lebron, Michael Jackson , Kanye West , Virgil abloh and a whole lot you can mention,\u201d his tweets read.<\/p>\n<p>Moments after his post, he has been widely scorned and chastised by many on social media, particularly on Twitter, for supporting something that dehumanized and left Africans with unending pain and agony.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_283414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283414\" style=\"width: 663px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-283414\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"540\"  data-lazy- src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-20-at-9.49.54-AM-663x540.png\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-283414\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-20-at-9.49.54-AM-663x540.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"540\"  \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-283414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kofi Jamar praises slave trade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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; Derrick Osei Kuffour Prempeh, better known by his stage name Kofi Jamar, is a singer from Ghana who, unlike other Africans, values slavery and colonialism more highly than the freedom and autonomy that modern Africa provides its citizens. The \u201cEkorso\u201d singer claims that Africans would not have profited from things like music \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9871,4058,333,10659,18857,1088,26001],"class_list":["post-1207655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-africans","tag-brought","tag-good","tag-harm","tag-jamar","tag-kofi","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207655","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=1207655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}