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If I were the President of Ghana, then, I would have to act and behave like the former Prime Minister of Singapore late Lee Kwan Yew, and the current President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, in Ghana our motherland. I would also be filled with the Spirit of God Almighty, which was in Joseph and Daniel so that I would be like them 100 per cent (Genesis 41 verses 37 to 50, Daniel 2 verses 19 to 23, 6 verses 1 to 3). I would be here to promote solely the welfare and the well-being of Children, Youth and Ordinary people (who are 90% of the population) as against that of Leaders, Elders and Elites (who are just 10% of the population).
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It is also iconic for being a midwife of one of Africa’s most prominent music genres dubbed, Palmwine music. This genre is also called Highlife music.
It all began in the ports of Accra, Lagos, Liberia and Sierra Leone. African dockworkers and sailors who were under the Portuguese merchants of the early 1900s were the first ones to ever create versions of Palmwine Music.
They just wanted to experiment on the guitars owned by their Spaniard and Portuguese masters and began mixing the Latin music the Westerners were playing with their own native Afro rhythms. There and then, the damp dockyards became the labour room of Palmwine Music.