{"id":102875,"date":"2023-09-25T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/25\/ghanaian-event-organisers-spend-3-5m-on-nigerian-artists-in-december\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:54:07","slug":"ghanaian-event-organisers-spend-3-5m-on-nigerian-artists-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/25\/ghanaian-event-organisers-spend-3-5m-on-nigerian-artists-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian event organisers spend $3.5M on Nigerian artists in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">, media entrepreneur and politician Baba Sadiq has said that event organisers in Ghana spend almost $3.5 million on Nigerian artists alone every December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Baba Sadiq disclosed this ahead of the inaugural Guinness Accravaganza, a multi-artsy experience celebrating all things black and magical in Accra.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-975488 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-25-at-6.42.50-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"382\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The event, held at the all-new Barndoor Beer Garden on September 20, 2023, featured seasoned enablers across Ghana\u2019s tourism, creative, and cultural industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They included PaJohn Bentsifi Dadson (founder Bentsifi\/Native Adventures), Abdul-Samed Sadiq (Digital, Ecommerce, and Culture Manager at Guinness Ghana), Anabelle Mckenzie (Director, Year of Return), Kennedy AgyapongJr (Co-founder, Afrofuture), Mariam Agyeman-Buahin (Founder, Let She Go), and Sadiq Abdulai Abu (Founder, 3Music TV | Full Circle Management).<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of the challenges event organisers are facing in securing sponsorships, Baba Sadiq said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFrom the beginning of the year If you look at the budget allocated to the tourism sector alone it can\u2019t cater for the whole year, but they can\u2019t complain for fear of being victimised\u2026they know they\u2019re struggling but wouldn\u2019t say it\u2026look, in December alone events in Ghana ship in over 3.5 million dollars on Nigerian talents alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baba Sadiq who is also the parliamentary aspirant for the Okaikoi Central constituency on the NDC ticket, added that event organisers are exploring alternative ways to fund their events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Watch Baba Sadiq\u2019s full submission below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"RPcKEmSC34k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Event organizers in Ghana spend $3M on Nigerian artists every December - Baba Sadiq\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RPcKEmSC34k?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, media entrepreneur and politician Baba Sadiq has said that event organisers in Ghana spend almost $3.5 million on Nigerian artists alone every December. Baba Sadiq disclosed this ahead of the inaugural Guinness Accravaganza, a multi-artsy experience celebrating all things black and magical in Accra. The event, held at the all-new Barndoor Beer Garden on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ghanaian event organisers spend $3.5M on Nigerian artists in December - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/25\/ghanaian-event-organisers-spend-3-5m-on-nigerian-artists-in-december\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghanaian event organisers spend $3.5M on Nigerian artists in December - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\", media entrepreneur and politician Baba Sadiq has said that event organisers in Ghana spend almost $3.5 million on Nigerian artists alone every December. 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