{"id":749479,"date":"2022-01-14T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/stonebwoy-invokes-spirit-of-rawlings-nrumah-yaa-asantewaa-ahead-of-gabon-match\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:21:11","slug":"stonebwoy-invokes-spirit-of-rawlings-nrumah-yaa-asantewaa-ahead-of-gabon-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/stonebwoy-invokes-spirit-of-rawlings-nrumah-yaa-asantewaa-ahead-of-gabon-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonebwoy invokes spirit of Rawlings, Nrumah, Yaa Asantewaa ahead of Gabon match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/97293286.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Kwame Nkrumah, J.J Rawlings, Yaa Asantewaa\" title=\"Dr Kwame Nkrumah, J.J Rawlings, Yaa Asantewaa\" width=\"295\" height=\"227\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dr Kwame Nkrumah, J.J Rawlings, Yaa Asantewaa<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>Black Stars to play against Gabon at AFCON2021<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Stonebwoy tips Black Stars to win against Gabon<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Baffoe encourages Black Stars team<\/p>\n<p>After suffering a defeat to Morroco in their first game at the ongoing African Cup of Nations in Cameroon, Black Stars are set to face Gabon, Friday, in their second Group C match.<\/p>\n<p>Although a section of Ghanaians have stated that they have no hope for the national team to break the 40-year AFCON trophy drought, dancehall musician Stonebwoy is of the belief that Black Stars will pick up all three points with the help of some ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the game which is expected to kick off at 7:00 pm, veteran Back Stars player Anthony Baffoe who is with the team in Cameroon charged them to sweat for the national flag and win the game.<\/p>\n<p>The inspiring message by Mr Baffoe has gone viral with Stonebwoy retweeting it. The award-winning artiste added that it is a done deal for the Black Stars as the spirits of Ghana&#8217;s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Asante warrior Yaa Asantewaa and former president Jerry John Rawlings are supporting the Black Stars to a win against Gabon. <\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8220;We refuse to have a bad day today in the name of Kwame Nkrumah and JJ Rawlings spiced with Yaa Asantewaa.. in Jesus name. Amen! #BlackstarsWin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Baffoe in his message to the players said: &#8220;I\u2019m just from the stadium, I watched Cameroon play; guys [tomorrow] is a do or die, that doesn\u2019t exist it\u2019s a do or do, please put that in your heads. Let the people talk, let the journalists write whatever they want to write, it is the D-day. You see, you must show anger, anger to win&#8230;You have been in the team for long. You can\u2019t allow yourself to have a bad day. It is not possible to have a bad day. Sweat for the nation, sweat for the flag, sweat for your families.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><b>Check out the post below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/63805125.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Kwame Nkrumah, J.J Rawlings, Yaa Asantewaa Black Stars to play against Gabon at AFCON2021 Stonebwoy tips Black Stars to win against Gabon Anthony Baffoe encourages Black Stars team After suffering a defeat to Morroco in their first game at the ongoing African Cup of Nations in Cameroon, Black Stars are set to face Gabon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[260,1671,1113,1672,1508,1673,1674,1675,1676,1677],"class_list":["post-749479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ahead","tag-asantewaa","tag-gabon","tag-invokes","tag-match","tag-nrumah","tag-rawlings","tag-spirit","tag-stonebwoy","tag-yaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749479","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=749479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}